Pseudoscience is Modern Medicine - page 2.

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Quote from: Spendulus on October 09, 2018, 02:20:41 PM

Quote from: af_newbie on October 09, 2018, 10:02:29 AM

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One "fixed idea" in medicine is that nutrition does not play a significant role in overall health. It used to be important not long ago.
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I don't think this is a fixed idea in medicine.

It's impossible, becomes of several basic precepts.

Even cases where there is currently a debate on the facts, such as butter vs margarine, red meat vs on red meat, artificial sweeteners...the debate itself falsifies your assertion. Whichever is true, it's not fixed, right?

FYI, I was talking about the medical profession, specifically the medical education.

Read the content provided in the links in my previous post. Some medical schools don't teach nutrition at all.

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Quote from: af_newbie on October 09, 2018, 10:02:29 AM

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One "fixed idea" in medicine is that nutrition does not play a significant role in overall health. It used to be important not long ago.
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I don't think this is a fixed idea in medicine.

It's impossible, becomes of several basic precepts.

Even cases where there is currently a debate on the facts, such as butter vs margarine, red meat vs on red meat, artificial sweeteners...the debate itself falsifies your assertion. Whichever is true, it's not fixed, right?

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Quote from: Moloch on October 09, 2018, 07:21:29 AM

Interesting how you can replace the word pseudoscience with religion and every sentence is still true

Interesting how you can replace the word pseudoscience with "Capitalism" and every sentence is still true.

Interesting how you can replace the word pseudoscience with "Nationalism" and every sentence is still true.

The list goes on! Don't blame the 'religion' blame the humans! I dunno why 'humans' don't want to take responsibility for their actions. It would be nice if we can grow up and take the fucking responsibility for our actions instead of looking for things to blame them on.

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Ever notice how scientists try to accept science as pseudoscience... many of them at least? They have science theory, which they know can change, yet may try to believe that these science theories are reality, when they know that such has not been proven.

Sounds like these scientists are trying to form a "religion of science" that they want us to believe in.

Cool

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Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on October 09, 2018, 08:30:34 AM

Is this sarcasm? You think modern medicine has no peer review? Has non-repeatable results? Has fixed ideas?

There are hundreds of medical journals being published every month, including some of the most famous journals in the world - The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, The British Medical Journal - which combined are publishing thousands of peer reviewed articles every month. Many journals have Editorials and/or Letters sections, rife with disagreements and criticisms of various studies, methods, practices and the like. I mean, the mere fact that we don't still use chloroform for anesthesia and diabetes is no longer fatal means that medicine doesn't have "fixed ideas".

One "fixed idea" in medicine is that nutrition does not play a significant role in overall health. It used to be important not long ago.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430660/

https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j4861.full

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jbe/2015/357627/

Only 30% of US medical schools offer a separate nutrition course.

Food has changed over the years and it continues to change, new food substitutes, processed foods are being marketed to the unsuspected public, but the medical profession ignores the changes.

Most people over 40 are either overweight or obese. Why is that? Nobody cares.

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Is this sarcasm? You think modern medicine has no peer review? Has non-repeatable results? Has fixed ideas?

There are hundreds of medical journals being published every month, including some of the most famous journals in the world - The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, The British Medical Journal - which combined are publishing thousands of peer reviewed articles every month. Many journals have Editorials and/or Letters sections, rife with disagreements and criticisms of various studies, methods, practices and the like. I mean, the mere fact that we don't still use chloroform for anesthesia and diabetes is no longer fatal means that medicine doesn't have "fixed ideas".

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