Your naivete in having so much faith in the medical-industrial complex is remarkable. Are you not able to see how science has been prostituted for profits? Your facts and your logic are both lacking.
I'm would consider myself very far from naive about modern medicine, as you know my recent struggle with aggressive lymphoma has been quite the education. I should be dead, and if i was born in a less fortunate location or time period i would be. You will be happy to know i just received results from my last biopsy that show that, for now and to the best of our knowledge, that I'm in remission. That doesn't mean I'm out of the woods by any means, but it's definitely very good news. I'm very confused at you being against basic cancer screening including mammograms, which have saved 2 of my aunts so far. While it obviously doesn't save everyone, they are getting better every day.
Some of the newer developments in the last few years are absolutely incredible, from newer chemo regimens, immunotherapy, genetically modified viruses and cells, really too many to list and are coming out faster and faster. While most will likely take only baby steps towards the goal, sometimes you develop something like rituxan, which overnight completely changed the mortality of many blood cancers. Yes they still use mustard gas derived chemo agents and others with horrific side effects, but due to experimentation have proven their continued prominence as the best we have for now. Many have died over time in this death march called progress, some testing stuff we take for granted now such as c sections which was medically necessary for my son. It's very unfortunate, but there is no other way. If my time comes and I'm eligible for a clinical trial, i will gladly contribute for the chance of living longer. Some may have the option of waiting for this testing to be done by others, some do not.
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@stig and you aren't "buddies" but bringing his very unfortunate diagnosis of leukemia into any debate is pretty much bullshit. There are certain lines you just should not cross, and that is completely one of them. Even if it was caused by a polio vaccine, he was a child when it happened so didn't have a say in the matter, and he didn't have to endure an iron lung and paralysis that comes with polio. The decision was made using the best information at the time, and although some were casualties, it was for the best. I'm absolutely certain he will agree with this. Being a casualty of something that is supposed to make you healthier is terrible, but unfortunately nothing we do is completely safe, and is usually a risk one is willing to take.
I am curious what originally led to your seemingly lifelong crusade against modern medicine. I completely agree that parts of it are severely contaminated by corrupt capitalism, which is much more of a damnation of a for profit medical system than the medicine itself. You are clearly very passionate about this, I'm just curious why. It just seems very random to a bystander. Did you complete medical school or something? Any college in medicine? Work as a nurse or even an cnr or emt?
You mention fentenal and other prescription opiods as the prime example of drugs that cause nothing but harm, completely ignoring how incredibly useful and wonderful they are in a supervised medical setting. I've personally been given fentenal almost a dozen times, mostly during ir surgeries. It's not fun, but combined with a sedative and local anesthesia, they can do a surprising amount of cutting while not requiring a patient to be intubated, greatly reducing risks and making certain surgeries a cheaper, safer experience. During my biopsy a few weeks ago i was able to communicate with the surgeon pain i was experiencing, which lead him to conclude he was stabbing a bundle of nerves, so he repositioned the needle to miss them. The ability to do that real time is incredible.
I truly hope you never need to use prescription opiods, but if you need them, you will be very grateful they exist. When i was in very very very severe pain at the beginning of my treatment, without them i would have attempted to kill myself repeatedly by any means available, even tho i was partially paralyzed from my immune system going haywire. I'm talking tying something around my neck i want this to stop pain, swallowing stuff to choke, cutting or stabbing, anything. Instead i was telling jokes and making everyone who came to help me smile and have a better day. If you have never experienced that kind of pain you frankly have no business even commenting on it, or the drugs that make that as tolerable as possible.
But what I did say in every public appearance was that due to the way the system is set up there isn't a level playing field between natural remedies and prescription drugs. Only FDA-approved medicines and devices can be used to prevent or treat disease. The cost of such approval runs around 300-500 million. No one is going to spend that kind of money on any unpatentable remedy. Vitamin C or Laetrile, or DMSO, or Vit D, or even off-patent drugs such as Ivermectin. So don't expect to see much science behind natural remedies.
Did it ever occur to you that only stuff that's actually reviewed for safety and efficacy should be sold to people? That's honestly a no brainer, we expect the same for the equipment we use for cutting trees. If the approval process is too strict that's a debate we could have, but despite those costs we still have mistakes, so which is it? Finally, i actually have a prescription for vitamin D, and they are using it to treat indolent lymphoma in between relapses (indolent lymphoma is slow but mostly terminal for now), in a modern medicine setting. Yup, vitamin D is currently being used to treat types of blood cancers, which are very very expensive to treat using other stuff. It obviously isn't the same as cancer drugs, but they have noted it's effectiveness so it's actually prescribed.