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In reply to the discussion: Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity [View all]CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)24. Good points.
To be fair, do we 'really' know what causes any disease? As a free market society, we set up institutions and industries that produce profit above everything else.
The Health Industry is a free-market "honey-hole". Human nature is such that the self goes through ups and downs as a matter of course or day-to-day living. The Health Industry gets to define, label and treat these "ups and downs" for the sole purpose of making a profit. And they see pretty much everybody as a customer.
"...what I am really a fan of is de-commercialized medicine, non-profit medicine, Doctors with salaries..."
What I'd like is a stress free society. No need for a "health" industry.
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What is interesting is that it is a study of the data submitted with the papers
intaglio
Oct 2013
#3
I've often thought that a lot of research is flawed due to poorly designed experiments.
hedgehog
Oct 2013
#12
Some of that is ok, but the mercury in vaccines still isn't linked to Autism.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2013
#21
What I'd like is a real Health Industry, not the Disease Industry we have
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2013
#37
Your comment also, I would think, at applies to the poster upthread as well.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2013
#26
The standards for research & science are much higher now than when the original research was done.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2013
#19
There may have also been financial incentive for the failed earlier studies.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2013
#28