“Incurable Us” Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice
Why can’t America get healthy? This has been the topic of a recent US Senate Hearing chaired by Senator Ron Johnson.
Prominent health experts and podcasters made their case for why health has been declining. I found it odd that the presidents of major preventive medicine agencies and societies were absent from the table.
Prevention is a major aspect of modern medicine and research, yet this new interest seems to be taken up by authors, social media influencers, and podcasters. From my vantage point, if others can reach the masses and improve diets and lifestyle—then bring on the podcasters!
For insights on the pharmaceutical pipeline and chronic disease, I reached out to Dr. KP Stoller, physician and author for his insights from his recent book Incurable Us.
This is an excerpt from his book website: “Dr. Stoller maintains that the best evidence in medical research is not incorporated into clinical practice unless the medical cartel has the potential to make large amounts of money promoting the results of the research.
Stoller takes his provocative argument a step further, maintaining that if specific research conflicts with a powerful entity’s financial interests, the likely result will be an effort to suppress or distort the results.
Stoller cites numerous examples, including corporate influence on GMO labeling and public health.
Now for the first time in paperback, Stoller also explores how “revolving-door-employment” between the Centers for Disease Control and large pharmaceutical companies can affect research results—as well as our health.
Written in an accessible style that is thoroughly appropriate for a lay audience, Incurable Me is a must-read for anyone interested in the state of modern medicine.”
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Tom
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20% of the economy depends on as much of the population being sick and diseased as possible. This provides never ending employment of millions of health care and government workers. Your good health cannot be tolerated…ask your doctor if he is happy to lose you as a life long patient?
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Saeed Qureshi
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The problem is that there is no such thing as “the best medical research” or medical research. It implies medical science, which in reality does not exist; it is just a made-up science or its subject by medical experts (physicians). It’s a fake and fraudulent version of actual science/chemistry that must be addressed (https://bioanalyticx.com/science-facts-to-know/).
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Saeed,
“Biology, the study of living things, is not one of the physical sciences. The physical sciences do not study living things (though the principles and methods of the physical sciences are used in biophysics to investigate biological phenomena).” (Britannica)
David Knight wrote a 1992 book titled “Ideas In Chemistry” and subtitled “A History of the Science”. Knight beganChemistry is probably the best science to feature in a series on the history of ideas. This may seem a paradox, because most philosophers have taken physics as their example; and have seen the other sciences as following (and often lagging) along the path taken by astronomy, optics and energetics. Chemistry then becomes a kind of poor relation of physics. beyond the ‘natural history stage’ but still a messy and smelly business in which good mathematical models cannot be applied very fully. For those who see chemistry this way, true theory in chemistry would be physical; and all that chemical experiment and reasoning can generate in default of that are empirical generalizations much less fundamental than the laws of physics. Chemistry can thus be seen as a kind of scientific cookery, its ideas only of interest to those involved in it and perhaps their wives, biographers or psychiatrists; for everybody else, the more interesting and exacting discipline of physics should be studied.”
Have you read this book? If not are you interested in more of what Knight wrote? Have a good day
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solarsmurph
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Something wrong here.
From the description this book a re-hash of “Incurable Me; Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice by K. Paul Stoller MD – Sept. 27 2016 , available as Hard Cover, Paperback, Kindle, and audiobook.
Also, why does the book cover show it is written by K.P. Stoller, but the description above indicate it is written by Written by Peter A. Mccullough, MD, MPH on October 7, 2024. Posted in Current News
All in all, a good book to read or listen to.
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