My posts show that I have posted a number of anecdotes, and the response from skeptics is that only repeatable peer-reviewed evidence is acceptable.
In the last few weeks I have had to research possible cures for sarcoptic mites in dogs and the possibility that the dog mite can infect humans.
The internet abounds with false and contradictory “facts”. Many claim that these “facts” are supported by “scientific peer-reviewed experiments”.
It should be a simple matter to find a cure that works, and explanations as to the whys and wherefore – but it is not. And sufferers are turning to anecdotal evidence from other people.
Many of the home-grown cures are often mentioned in older medical journals that used anecdotes as a basis for the cure – they were observed to work most of the time. There are now newer “cures” that are touted and promoted and sold – also anecdotally supported.
Over and over one gets posts that slam these cures as dangerous quackery, and urge others to go to a doctor and get a medical prescription.
Many report these prescriptions as failing them, and they are suffering.
I did a lot of research. I found that many scientific reports included anecdotal “reports”. The reason is that there is a tremendous variation in the human condition, and science uses strictly controlled laboratory conditions that are extrapolated to humans. Human testing is forbidden, and now animal testing is under fire.
I can tell you that doctors will insist that their patients condition is not medically possible, and yet it happens. This happens more often than one thinks.
So I challenge skeptics – would you bend your inflexible “science or death” rule and accept that there are times that anecdotal evidence sometimes has more truth that the science experiments?
What is seriously worrying is that politicians and big corporations appear to be “manipulating” the scientific “evidence” to dumb down the population and push them all to conventional doctors and medicines at great cost despite many that fail to achieve a cure.
I have my research to back up what I am saying.
In the last few weeks I have had to research possible cures for sarcoptic mites in dogs and the possibility that the dog mite can infect humans.
The internet abounds with false and contradictory “facts”. Many claim that these “facts” are supported by “scientific peer-reviewed experiments”.
It should be a simple matter to find a cure that works, and explanations as to the whys and wherefore – but it is not. And sufferers are turning to anecdotal evidence from other people.
Many of the home-grown cures are often mentioned in older medical journals that used anecdotes as a basis for the cure – they were observed to work most of the time. There are now newer “cures” that are touted and promoted and sold – also anecdotally supported.
Over and over one gets posts that slam these cures as dangerous quackery, and urge others to go to a doctor and get a medical prescription.
Many report these prescriptions as failing them, and they are suffering.
I did a lot of research. I found that many scientific reports included anecdotal “reports”. The reason is that there is a tremendous variation in the human condition, and science uses strictly controlled laboratory conditions that are extrapolated to humans. Human testing is forbidden, and now animal testing is under fire.
I can tell you that doctors will insist that their patients condition is not medically possible, and yet it happens. This happens more often than one thinks.
So I challenge skeptics – would you bend your inflexible “science or death” rule and accept that there are times that anecdotal evidence sometimes has more truth that the science experiments?
What is seriously worrying is that politicians and big corporations appear to be “manipulating” the scientific “evidence” to dumb down the population and push them all to conventional doctors and medicines at great cost despite many that fail to achieve a cure.
I have my research to back up what I am saying.
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