Tag: medicine
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How doctors choose to die
People die. And even if we do not think of it too much, even doctors die! But how do they treat the possibility of death? It is surprising to see that when faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment. Years ago, Charlie,…
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Modern doctors & the Hypocrisy of health...
Oxford researchers published a research on Lancet which says the NHS should consider giving statins to healthy people, so as to decrease the risk of heart attacks [source 1="<a" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18091708" 2="target="_blank">BBC" 3="News</a>" language=":"][/source]. There you go. It is really weird how many scientism-lovers believe that medicine and technology gives them a better life, while many…
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Against alternative medicine... But why?
Many times we read articles about doctors critisizing "alternative medicine". However what we do not understand is that the very characterization of a practice as "alternative" automatically places it in this special place in our brain where we have put all the things which are interesting but "wrong". Why would you say that something, anything,…
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The weight of soul, the dogmatism of medicine...
Once upon a time, a physician conducted six experiments which showed that there is a stable loss of weight upon human death. The physician was Dr. Duncan "Om" MacDougall (c. 1866 – October 15, 1920). In March 1907, accounts of MacDougall's experiments were published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and the medical journal…
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Doctors, Medicine, Horror…
High esteemed doctors known in the medical world and coming from well known universities, conducting CIA-funded mind control experiments to disabled, prisoners, sick people? And then actually publishing research based on those illegal and inhumane experiments? Nuhhh… This could not have happened. We do not live in Medieval times. Or maybe we do? ...
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