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Originally Posted by CraigS
My take on Medical Science is that corrective medicine, (ie: surgery, pharmacology, etc) and detection techniques are very sound and have improved human existence. So has mass vaccination. Medical treatments based on the causes of medical ' conditions', (other than proven, bacterially & virally caused diseases), however, has a long way to go. Meta-analysis seems to frequently establish correlations but rarely, causation. Corruption has also been evident recently in a few cases impacting hundreds of thousands of patients ( Avandia might go this way, the whole cholesterol causing heart disease trail has cases of corruption embedded within it, also. These statements are however - cherry picking within a huge topic. We should all remain vigilant about these influences none-the-less, especially when it pertains to personal health). |
"Medical science" is a pseudoscience, but it is underpinned by a large number of perfectly respectable biological sciences. We get lots of widely-accepted 'medical' pronouncements that are not backed by the underpinning biological science. It must drive the bios nuts! Doctors are technicians, not scientists, and when we let a rampant pharmaceutical industry and a strong medical profession massage the political system to leapfrog the science that's what we get I suppose.
But beneath it all the good science still goes on, and will win in the end. One hopes.
Cheers -
(PS, what was the topic?)