TED Bad Science

[raw-al]

Enjoy!
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html

[goodsamaritan]

The way I learned about healing myself and other people is hands on anecdotal experience of myself, my patients, from fellow healers and from fellow humans who give their "honest" testimonials.

Do my self experiments, apply on other people, remember and blog about the results.

It is an art and a science and logic to heal people.

Excuse me while I bad mouth those who think "science" should ignore anecdotal evidence.

I spend a lot of time with hands on healers...  My science is anecdotal, experimental confirmatory, can be repeated but not all the time.

This entire rawpaleodietforum.com is anecdotal.

[raw-al]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/20/drug-companies-ghost-writing-journalism

[raw-al]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/?tool=pmcentrez

[goodsamaritan]

A big factor is who FUNDED the "research."

It's all a con game.  He who lies best profits.

Also has to do with "patent medicine".  Laws should be revised.

Why a paid scientist from a drug firm will study a plant like Marijuana and its Oil because marijuana oil cures some cancers.  So the idiots will look for something to manipulate, isolate to be patentable to make money.  And make studies to show that their new creation works.

Let's cure the root cause.

Real healers will just use the marijuana oil as a tool in their ever enlarging tool box of healing tools.

How about our raw red meats cure erectile dysfunction?  Betcha, they'll try to isolate some item in the raw red meat and manipulate some molecules to be able to patent a drug.  And we stock investors buy into these pharma stocks.