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Hi Santosh,
Thank you for your polite response. I fully concur with your statement below
about the "self-corrective nature of science". The question I have for you (and
others) is: Are not other fields like religion, politics, history, government
etc. also "self-correcting" over time? So we cannot condemn medicine / science
for its past mistakes, because it self-corrects. Yet, can we keep constantly
condemning religion, other fields and major institutions for their historical
mistakes, as you and a few Goanetters tend to do. I do not want your rebuttal.
I just request your consideration of this point when you (and others) stand on
the soap-box.
I am sure you realize, that until medicine self-corrects, perhaps in a decade
or so, a lot of patients are the victims of flawed treatments and
recommendations in the interim. Just look at the large number of drugs that
have been pulled off the shelf or the changing medical practice patterns in
various diseases. So medicine / science, as well as we physicians and
scientists, do not have a monopoly on self-righteousness and wisdom.
Mario quoted you verbatim (with web links) in his response to Filomena. Hence,
my line of reasoning was not your exact words; but rather what an unbiased
reader understood from your parsed writings? Either our intelligent Filomena
had a problem understanding your English / writings. Or she was demagoging the
subject and me by implying, that I was promoting that, we should do away with
surgery in cancer management.
In fact, you were so good in your writings on this subject that I was confused
by what you were trying to say. You condemned me for reporting on the mice
experiment that suggest surgery alters the immune system and making the cancer
behave more aggressively. To quote you, I was: "Propagates dangerous myths and
misinformation regarding cancer treatment in this public forum."
Then you went ahead and directed readers to many references on exactly similar
findings (of suppressed immune markers after surgery) in humans. So this
supurlo Goenkar (moi) did not know whether to laugh or to cry. Similarly you
provided a link about the near-absolute need to do a biopsy to diagnose /
confirm a new cancer. This is something that one did not need a rocket
scientist to validate.:=)) That is why it looked to me like a "fuggdi". :=))
Kind Regards, GL
------------ Santosh Helekar
I have written extensively on the self-corrective nature of science over the
years.
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