Well, it's not PATENTLY ridiculous. There's a fairly extensive literature base to suggest that many of our modern treatments are not efficacious and either make

Well, it's not PATENTLY ridiculous. There's a fairly extensive literature base to suggest that many of our modern treatments are not efficacious and either make outcomes worse or at the least add side effects. Though I find it unlikely that treatments could be SO bad that the effect of being treated more would be reduced life span. The article that this article is criticizing may not be objectively seeking truth, as seems to be the case unfortunately, but we shouldn't reject its conclusion as on-face impossible Some examples: http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/ http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damne... Also you could look at, for psychiatry, Robert Whitaker's book Anatomy of an epidemic.