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A Midwestern Doctor- What Underlies the Erosion of Trust in Modern Medicine?
Each of these follows the same pattern—something new gets introduced as “safe and effective,” people notice the issues and object to it, science, media and the government conspire to suppress those objections, and then once it’s normalized, something even more egregious is done the next time.
That half of Western citizens are gobbling down statins every day with their morning coffee is but one pharmaceutical absurdity foisted on the population.
Stop the world, I want to get off.
I keep seeing these television commercials selling Hash Gummies. And, even on the surface, I have my doubts as to whether allowing the public (which is largely becoming functionally retarded) the opportunity to make themselves more stupid is the right call. But, it gets worse.
The commercial that keeps popping up shows a young mother busy in the kitchen while her three toddler aged kids bounce around the house in the usual toddler way (that is to say, loud and under foot). The solution in my day was to calm your kids down, perhaps invoke a few rules about inside vs. outside voice, and to stay out of the way while Mom cooks.
The solution on this television commercial was for the young mother to go to the living room, sit down on the sofa, put her feet up and scarf down a Hash Gummie. You know, to relax.
That sits wrong with me and seems indicative of a generational gap of canyon sized proportions. Or is it just me? 😀
That is insane, and I have to agree with you about the public retardation virus.
She goes running to the shelter of her “mother’s little helper”? Who would have thought?
Hey, bro,(the writer of this article). be long winded about it all if that helps.
As for me, not paid by the word or aspiring to some blog site importance, I will just say this. using the writer’s “equilibrium” trope…
I have maintained my equilibrium (calm state of mind) throughout all the el toro caca that has continually been spewed at us, from the cold war to covid.
Piss off. I will now listen to the local birds and remain calmer than you, dude.
The world is a very complicated place, and cogent analyses of such complexities are often beyond the average dude’s intelligence. Taking a simplistic worldview is the easy way out, but you miss some obscure but critical details that can kill you.
This is why so many people don’t like Jordan Peterson. He uses big words that aren’t in their everyday vocabularies. I have often encountered folks whose vocabularies consist mostly of “F”-based words. If it wasn’t for that word they wouldn’t be able to communicate at all.
“I recently had a conversation with a friend who runs a clinic network of 1,000+ MDs.
She said the main conversation among doctors is frustration that patients are asking about the “root cause” and “more natural cures” for their conditions.
She said 0% of patients asked these questions five years ago, and now 80% of patients do.”