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Monday, September 29, 2008

The best way to stay healthy is to avoid doctors and hospitals...

...and that's what I'm sticking with.

Dramatic Example of How Health Truth May Take Up to a Century to be Accepted:
"...this kind of willful ignorance on the part of the medical establishment is not particularly surprising. Some of medicine’s most glaring mistakes and deliberately ignored problems include:

* Bloodletting as a cure-all
* Promotion of cocaine, heroin, and other narcotics
* Lobotomy
* Thalidomide
* DES
* HRT: The menopause “cure”
* H. pylori, which is the true cause of ulcers
* The Vioxx disaster that killed 60,000
* Disregarding Dr. Semmelweis and his hand-washing recommendation"

Or, as most deftly put by my favorite philosopher R.A. Wilson,
"According to a study by the Office of Technology Assessment only 20% of American medical theory has been validated by randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. About 80% of the time, then, doctors follow prejudice, hunch, intuition, guessing, prayer, or just plain bluff."

Avoid unless absolutely necessary.

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