On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Dennis Oleksyuk <mail@dennis-o.com> wrote:
To proponents of science based medicine. Try to stop yourself and just ignore people who are proactively pushing non-medicine, either directly or under pretext of being 'open minded'. Your time is better spent spreading scientific knowledge to people who are not active promoters of non-medicine. Once you convert someone to the scientific way of thinking they very rarely come back. You can count that as a solid win against ignorance.Those who are pushing non-medicine usually have too much invested into the argument to give it up. They either make public claims, which makes it really hard to backtrack and don't look bad. Or their livelihood literally depends on it because that is how they make their income.Also take a look at this article/podcast. It says the same thing but in much better way. I relisten and reread it time to time to remind myself to resist the urges to fight the anti-science claims.
My take is don't encourage such anti-science, but also check in on their claims once in a while... you might find some serious misguidance on their part which /is/ worth fighting against... or you might find a real gem-in-the-rough.
On that last part, I feel the big "ah hah" that cheap sequencing, NMR, better microscopes, big data/compute, etc... is affording us these days is the knowledge that humans/organisms are highly polymorphic/variable. One "real science" big-pharma cancer treatment may have absolutely no effects on one patient vs another... or even the same patient that gets another form of cancer. How much granularity do traditional-medicine/pseudo-scientists even have? Certainly not cell biopsy data, sequencing from any of those biopsies that didn't occur, no fMRI, no CT, etc, etc, etc... In that light, I'd call it severely-data-limited-and-misguided science. Humans are able to recognize patterns, whether they are doing so correctly/optimally/honestly/knowledgeably is another thing. Outright ignoring 'wacky'/pseudo/bad science is not prudent, there's too much humans don't know about the world/life/physics/etc, there's too much that "seems" "magic" and definitely is not. So going by a case-by-case basis is really needed. The people that truly believe in alternative medicine, I hope, will eventually catch up with modern analytical techniques and understanding. We need to encourage the people who are really trying to make a difference, but don't yet know all the best practices.
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