Living beautifully with science-based medicine (SBM)

[cvirtue]

Originally posted by attack_laurel at Living beautifully with science-based medicine (SBM)
Recently a young woman in Australia who called herself the "Wellness Warrior" has died.  I find her death sad, but I find myself much more enraged, because she pushed a number of "cancer-curing" things that have nothing to do with curing cancer, such as coffee enemas, an

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[pamelina]

I think the biggest problem isn't just Science-based-medicine (SBM) vs Cures That Do Not Work (CTDNW,) although I kept cheering as I read, and I agree with almost everything that your author says.

The problem is, there are a few Cures That DO Work (or Cures that are Very Promising) hiding in both "systems." But there's no way to tell the promising cures from the nonsense if they don't get studied, and if we don't have access to the research that does get done.

And there are frauds in SBM, too. For example, the anti-vaccine movement largely originated from that fraudulent study connecting vaccines and autism, which came from a then-well-respected medical doctor in SBM. Remember the tobacco-owned mainstream SBM faction pushback against blaming lung cancer on smoking? Those have to count as fraud, too, right? How many women died of premarin-induced cancers before good data on the results of that kind of hormone replacement therapy were in? Where are the studies of bioidentical hormone replacement therapies? Sloppy or nonexistent

[pamelina]

So I agree with a wholehearted cheer with these comments:

"Sure, there are lots of drugs people don't need, and there are some greedy mofos in the pharmaceutical industry (mostly on the marketing side) who make up "syndromes" so they can peddle drugs, but (excuse me for yelling):

SO DOES THE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE INDUSTRY. THEY MAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PEDDLING "CURES" THAT DO. NOT. WORK." and: " I'm knocking on them because they committed fraud."

I just want to point out that this is true, too:

"Sure, there are lots of diets and supplements people don't need, and there are some greedy mofos in the supplement industry (mostly on the manufacturing and marketing sides) who make up "syndromes" so they can peddle diets and pills, but (excuse me for yelling):

SO DOES THE MAINSTREAM MEDICINE INDUSTRY. THEY MAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PEDDLING "CURES" THAT DO. NOT. WORK." and: " I'm knocking on them because they committed fraud."

We need more studies, and we need access to all the research results to all the studies, (not just the

[pamelina]

And I didn't talk at all about the abysmal reporting mainstream media does about medical things.

But you already know all about that slimepit.