On 30/04/2014 11:27 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2014-04-30 1:10 PM, graham wrote:
>
>>>
>> The trouble is that so many quacks call themselves "Dr" that unless you
>> see "MD" or "Ph.D" after their names, you must question any of their
>> statements/assertions. Obviously this doesn't apply to august groups
>> such as the Heart Foundation or any other well-established medical
>> charity.
>> Graham
>
>
> It is interesting to see such divergent views about dietary issues. Some
> people blame dietary fat for clogged arteries. Some blame the sugars
> that the body uses to produce it's own fat. Experts have their views and
> there are large organizations that support them. They think they have
> the research to back up their beliefs. Some say to afford dairy fat, and
> others say that the problem is homogenization. Some time ago there were
> people here pushing coconut as some sort of wonder food. I was given a
> list of foods to eat and foods to avoid. It said to eat lots of fruit
> ..... but in bold capitals... NOT COCONUT.
>
> People should read White Coat "Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of
> Medicine " to get some insight into the way medical and drug research is
> done. Aside from choosing which research actually gets published, there
> are a number of problems with the research being done and the way
> doctors are being swayed by articles. A lot of the articles are
> actually ghost written by authors.... scientific writers, not doctors.
> Then they pay a real doctor to use his name. When you see the name of a
> very well known doctor's name on a research article, having his name
> there may be his only connection to the research.
>
>
I am well aware of what goes on in academia having published
peer-reviewed research papers.
However, when it comes to the fields of medicine and nutrition, there
are so many quacks out there these days giving false and misleading
information that certain factions of the general public (J.B.
Priestley's "Admass") believe WITHOUT question.
This morning in the local library, I happened to get into conversation
with a middle-aged woman on the subject of baking, which morphed into
anti-vaxxers.
She says she can't eat gluten-containing products any more because the
modern strains of wheat have changed the gluten. This is crap that she
picked up from those quack books and, of course, the fountain of all
truth - the internet. this morphed into adjuvants in vaccines and it was
clear that she believed all the lies propounded by the disciples of
Andrew Wakefield.
I then noticed the mag-card hanging from her neck - she was from a
nearby chropracter's clinic so her gullibility was hardly surprising.
Graham