Your doctor should not be acting as a researcher with you as a laboratory. They are taking a biased position in favor of you as a patient and should provide the

Your doctor should not be acting as a researcher with you as a laboratory. They are taking a biased position in favor of you as a patient and should provide the best possible standard of care. A scientific researcher is trying to answer an unanswered question dispassionately. I don’t see how taking a bias in testing a scientific hypothesis can possibly determine the truth of a scientific fact. Are researchers who say that applying leeches won’t cure cancer bad for cancer patients? Why shouldn’t they be hopeful that leeches cure terminal cancer, rather than being downers? The answer is that cancer is the enemy, not people who oppose medical treatments that don’t work.