Quote: (06-01-2015 01:50 PM)Samseau Wrote:
All I've learned today is that the medical industry is extremely corrupted, and personally I won't be using any medicine that hasn't been proven to work at least 50 years ago.
Quote: (06-01-2015 02:59 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Studies in our times have to be analysed strongly. Finasteride in contrast to a cold medicine is to be taken for years and decades even. Peer-review means little nowadays and you have to take a hard look into the study design.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...octor.aspx
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Bias #1: Unwanted Results are Not Published
Bias #2: Bad Results are Submitted as Good
Bias #3: A Favorable Study is Submitted Multiple Times
Bias #4: Follow-Up Reviews Done by Biased Experts
Bias #5: Ghostwriting
Bias #6: Journal Bias
Bias #7: Drug Companies Masquerading as Educators
You can read the article and check out the links in it. One of my best friends is an MD and highly successful as a country manager for a large pharmaceutical company. He confirmed all the points to me in private. In a way he does not care too much and on the other hand he claims that is still the best system we've got. Well - I would say, it's better than the primitive times 100 years ago, but it could be 100 times better. But that is my opinion - we don't even debate much on the topic, since he says that it wouldn't even matter much to him if everything I say about medicine is true. He follows the guidelines and has to believe in it to a certain degree to do his job well. A healthy detachment of all helps with this.
Quote: (06-01-2015 06:15 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Again and again you find here guys defending the pharma cartel to the bone as if their livelihood depended on it.
Doesn't matter if it pleases you so much - better agree to disagree and move on. In my opinion most of the current pharmaceutical practices are semi-quackeries. Trauma treatment and surgeries have my full admiration and support - the majority of the rest is fraudulent, corrupt, misguided or outright criminal. Sometimes the criminal activity is just focused on suppressing cheap by far superior alternatives just because it would cost billions in revenue loss. Also - I do not accuse MDs - they can only act upon what they are taught in school.
This.
I work in scientific research myself and I notice that fraud is common. A friend of mine used to work in scientific research in the life sciences. He has told me multiple times that fraud is not only common, it is the norm.
Scientific research is a joke, especially in the life sciences. Always remember that somebody has to pay for these studies and that somebody are the same companies that develop the drug. The Mercola article is spot on. Scientists that are unwilling to participate in this farce are labeled quacks and their careers and even lives are destroyed.
Isn’t it remarkable how these peer-reviewed studies always come to conclusions that defy instinct and many years of human experience?
-acné because of poor eating habits and bad gut health? Not true, just take some topical medicine.
-catched a common cold because of wet feet? Not true, here have some syrup and a nose spray.
Isn’t it remarkable how they always bash alternative therapies that have helped many people (and for which there is also evidence that they do work)?
-acupuncture? Bullshit.
-homeopathy? Bullshit.
-osteopathy? Bullshit.
-orthomolecular medicine? Bullshit.
-anti-aging therapy through hormones? Bullshit.
-liver detox? Bullshit.
Isn’t it remarkable how some artificial patented molecule always performs way better than a natural substance?
-testosterone for depression in males? Doesn’t work, take some ssri’s.
-extra vitamin C to strengthen your immune system? Doesn’t work, take some antibiotics.
The list is endless. If you blindly believe the approved peer-reviewed studies in medicine, then you are simply ill-informed. Stop respecting professors, scientists, academics… They do not deserve your respect. They are just as corrupt as anyone else and they only care about money and prestige.