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> Medicine tends to be more arrogant and dismissive of anything they can't measure, for far longer than is strictly healthy. There's good reason for that. A hu
by Tade0 8mo ago
> Medicine tends to be more arrogant and dismissive of anything they can't measure, for far longer than is strictly healthy.
There's good reason for that. A huge part of such stuff eventually turns out to be dangerous horseshit.
- hinkley 8mo agoI know an awful lot of people that have been diagnosed with diseases that they were told as recently as ten years ago, do not exist. If it was one disease, I’d be more sympathetic, but it’s more than half a dozen. The difference between god and a doctor is God doesn’t think he’s a doctor.
- Tade0 8mo agoI knew a person who died because they believed in dangerous horseshit. In the same town, another person died from a different type of dangerous horseshit - specifically the kambo ritual. In terms of methods dangerous horseshit outnumbers actual medical practice 10:1 at least. How do you know which one works? The latter at the very least is tested for safety and efficacy.
- hinkley 8mo agoCategory error. You understand there’s a difference between thinking windex will cure viruses and thinking you have a chronic illness, right?