This is actually something I grapple with. There are plenty of examples where the field of medicine wound up being defiantly wrong and a few 'kooks' who knew be

This is actually something I grapple with. There are plenty of examples where the field of medicine wound up being defiantly wrong and a few 'kooks' who knew better were dismissed before the field finally came around. Things like washing one's hands between patients, ulcers being caused by bacteria and not stress, and babies not being able to feel pain. All that being said, these few examples don't mean the man is correct. Just that medicine can be defiantly wrong until proven otherwise. But that really shouldn't undermine the confidence in all aspects of modern medicine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies