The Faux Faith Of Modern Science
Think very carefully the next time your physician suggests new prescription drugs or offers you a bit of medical advice
“Science is part and parcel humility. Scientists do not seek to impose their needs and wants on Nature, but instead humbly interrogate Nature and take seriously what they find. We are aware that revered scientists have been wrong. We understand human imperfection. We insist on independent and — to the extent possible — quantitative verification of proposed tenets of belief.” — Carl Sagan, from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
Sagan would agree that modern science has taken a terrible turn. Corporate influence, conflicts of interest, ego and greed have corrupted the science of science if you will.
The results are bad scientific practices, a dearth of independent research, misinformation and studies designed to produce favorable results — and not for the health of the individual.
Big Pharma is arguably more concerned with competition than consumer protection.
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines,” stated Dr. Marcia Angell, the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
“I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor,” she wrote in a 2009 piece titled “Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption.”
Years later, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet echoed this sentiment:
“… Something has gone fundamentally wrong with one of our greatest human creations … The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.
Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS: CLINICAL TRIALS
Intake of prescription drugs is at all-time high. In 2021, 4.69 billion prescriptions were filled by Americans. All those drugs cost consumers $378 billion, according to a Consumer Safety report.
It’s hard to believe with all that pill popping, one in every two people suffer from a chronic illness….
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in a word, “micromanagement”
a small group of individuals wish to “micromanage” the masses of humanity..
Their aim, “nefarious”, to be sure..
Oh, there will be some with “greed” as a motive, but those that would micromanage,
they are the worry..
They have the “god complex”, fully consumed with the ideology that they know best..
Fully convinced, humanity will only survive to the glorious age of enlightenment by
following their course of management..
In olden times they would be the tyrant kings..
In our time we just call them the billionaires, the politicians, but in reality they are just
the mentally ill..
(or as some religious individuals call them, possessed of the Devil (Satan)..)
..
RTS
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