OT: Do you think medical science is valid, or do you consult YouTube for medical advice?

   I have never seen anything on Youtube that needed to be there.  I do listen to music on Youtube though from time to time.

   People who do not communicate well in text are generally not sufficiently informed to comment on anything.  Most learning about the wide world depends primarily on well written text.  The notion that videos are the way to go now since computers came along is wrong.  The videos are made by people playing with computers but not understanding anything much at all.  The videos are a waste of bandwidth since a three minute video has no more information than the words could convey if well written, and would only take a few seconds to read.

   Wikipedia can be helpful in presenting the simple facts that are beyond challenge, but that of course does little to solve controversial issues.  Where Wikipedia does try to involve itself in controversy it is typically wrong.

   A very severe problem lately with trusting "medical science" is that quite much parades as science that is not.  How can anyone tell which is the real science and which is financially or politically motivated?  You can't unless you are a real scientist yourself.  Most people are not capable of science themselves and their notions of medical science and other science are quite obviously mistaken.  There is an assumption that somehow the TV will police the matter and ensure only "real" science gets attention.  The assumption is wrong.  The TV responds to large numbers of people, and if they are wrong then the TV is wrong too.

   So yes, it is important to trust "medical science" but no, that won't be easy lately.  There is far too much nonsense passing itself off as science.  Then too, it is important to remember that most medicine is not "science" in the sense of solid proofs.  Quite much must depend on statistical analysis and usually with insufficient and inaccurate surveys.  It is not "science" in the sense of ceteris paribus or holding all other factors constant in order to certainly identify one.  It is simply not possible to hold all other factors constant.  There is far too much room for lurking variables.

   If you do believe in "medical science" you can shut up now.  No one should care what you think about anything since it is obvious you are not scientists yourselves and not even capable of policing scientists.

   As I write this I am quite aware that it will be little help to the people who have the problem the worst since you do not trust me.

   

  

Medical Science should be valid, but the human beings involved are not to be trusted. There are so few that have any objectivity, so few that are honestly into it to help anyone, that those few are silenced by the majority.


This goes both for research scientists and professional doctors. Most are in it to play God. That is human nature. Most doctors are actually trying to weed out humans they think are expendable in their ideal world. In the U.S., if you aren't related to any doctor, you'll only find any real help from the foreign doctors who have no particular interest in which American born families are to survive to collect social security. I've seen enough doctors to know this.


As for medical research, capitalism destroys that. Even if there is a truly decent researcher who doesn't hold a cure for ransom, the corporate leader who obtains the cure will hold it for ransom. Anyone who holds a medical cure or breakthrough for ransom should be executed, even if the information dies with the person. You can't deal with demon possessed devil worshipers. They only bury people deeper and deeper into holes.


But in theory, Medical Science should be valid, and if it was done by a robot with no human control, it would be valid. The problem is that humans would play God in designing the robot, such as designing the robot to work only for a majority of humans, or a special interest group, or more likely for the mob.


So, that is a tough question to answer.

Standard doctors are probably your safest all around bet as a general rule. but I don't trust them TOO much either.

but with that said... I am not a person who's a fan of prescription drugs etc as I think those are best off being avoided unless absolutely necessary as the way I see it some people take one for something and then need another to compensate for the side effects etc and before you know it, your taking a boatload of meds which can't be good for your overall health in the long term.

so as a general rule... the less meds the better as any doctor who does not agree with that general mindset, I simply would not trust, as they are probably more concerned with their $ than the patients health. side note: I am not sure how true it is but I have heard doctors get more $ for prescribing drugs, which if true, is a conflict of interest and makes one trust a doctor that much less right off the start.

also, I, like many others out there, are not a big fan of big pharma as they are motivated by $$$ more than a persons health. hell, you can almost tell their general standards are getting lower as some stuff they advertise on TV even admits it can cause cancer and other serious side effects. like some meds etc advertised on TV... the problem it's attempting to fix is not enough to risk the side effects of some of that crap. or put it this way... I am not a person who would put a whole lot of trust in the average doctor, especially for non-life threatening things.

I tend to avoid going to the doctors in general like I suspect most of us guys do. but thankfully I have had generally good overall health even though I realize that can't last forever but I suspect I should be okay for at least another decade or so.

p.s. for the record... I am not on any meds as I value my health. but back in the day, say my teens, I was briefly on some and they seemed to do more harm than good and that was the end of that BS.

Most of us wouldn't even exist without medical science.

It's a ridiculous question.  Everyone in this thread has benefited from it.

Heeey's a fuckin' hateful ignorant melodramatic attention whore... she deserves nothing but ridicule.

The problem with that question is that Youtube has channels by doctors as well as quacks.

I wouldn't use it as a consulting tool, but I enjoy watching videos such as this: