I just read a very good article that speaks about ‘useful idiots’, and I think that is is very relevant to what is happening in the medical field. It is also a microcosm of what has been happening in all of society, and in all major institutions in society. I don’t have the time here to delve into all of that, but suffice it to say that virtually all of the things that we take for granted as ‘facts’, are either blatantly false, or that the assumptions and foundations that support them are faulty or specious. Education, politics, medicine, sociology, economics, history, religion, etc., are all based on some very flawed logic. I’m not trying to offend anyone, but this has been my experience after many years of studying all of these (and many other) topics.
After learning about the dubious veracity of truths I had been spoon-fed since my youth, I thought that science was not susceptible to such manipulation because it was ‘empirical’. I was truly naive back then. But when I got into medical school, my spirit was unsettled, and I could not bring myself to embrace it. I was wondering where all the cures and effective treatments were, and when we were going to learn about them. I guess that I figured out that if they weren’t teaching this information to us in medical school, they were never going to share this information with us. If they aren’t teaching cures in medical school, but instead, were teaching more advanced factoids about physiology, histology, embryology, etc., what’s the point? continue reading…