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> Surely something as startling and revolutionary as that would have been well documented and explained being any shred of doubt Against the claim of thousands
by jodrellblank 6y ago
> Surely something as startling and revolutionary as that would have been well documented and explained being any shred of doubt
Against the claim of thousands of people documented as cured, you argue that such a documentary can't exist because if it existed there would be documentation?
I'm not asking you to believe onion juice cures cancer based on an unverified claim that it does, but what you're doing is pre-deciding that it can't and then refuting the claim that thousands of people were cured because if they were, there would be thousands of cured people. Your logic is bad, and unscientific.
But even then - would it be? You'd think if the Catholic Church was systematically abusing children on a massive scale, it would be well documented and chased by the police. But they were, and they were covering it up on a massive scale too. What about the tobacco companies misleading people on the harms of tobacco so badly they agreed to indefinite $10Bn/year payouts, or the 1971 Ford Pinto with a fire risk where Ford calculated that paying out for burns victim lawsuits would save them $70M over fixing the cars and then buried that in mountains of Department of Transport paperwork ... surely that can't be happening, if it was there would be evidence - and there was. The VW emissions scandal? Coverups do happen.
"It's not happening" until it is happening, then "of course it was happening, everyone knew it".
> Greedy quacks develop their own "treatments", which conveniently, for one reason or another, they can never prove the effectiveness of. They always have an excuse, never the possibility that it just doesn't work.
That ineffective quack treatments exist is not evidence that all treatment claims are ineffective quack treatments.
> I think for lots of people it's more comforting to imagine that there's some big conspiracy out there trying to keep effective care from them than the idea that there's just nothing that will save them from their terminal illness.
It's plausible that America's largest killer - heart disease - is preventable with dietary and lifestyle changes, and maybe curable/reversible[1]. A test for non-invasively measuring calcium buildup in the heart as a proxy for atheroscletoric plaque and diet and lifestyle changes which improve that value. Claims that the mainstream medical view is that it can't be done. Maybe he's wrong, maybe he's right, but if you decide that he's wrong because if he was right it would be mainstream, there's no way for your reasoning to allow any change.
[1] https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2017/11/reduce-heart-scan-score/ https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2017/11/reduce-heart-scan-sco...