I had always thought that the least that education can do quite successfully is to teach people to recognize what is real and what is fake, so as not to be easily fooled by charlatans. My experience on Goanet and elsewhere has unfortunately taught me that this is not true at all.
When it comes to medicine and other scientific subjects, in particular, ideology, religion and blind emotional appeal have nullified any advantage that education might have accorded the public, otherwise. Even so, I can understand why people, who do not have any kind of post-secondary scientific education, would have a hard time understanding what real science is. But it is thoroughly disappointing to see that here we have medical professionals who cannot tell the difference between real medicine and quackery, real reputable scientific websites and political propaganda websites, real science and pseudoscience, and real informed audience and blind followers of a postmodern fad or ideology. What a waste of education! The saddest thing (and perhaps, the funniest as well), however, is that these folk are so clueless that they invariably believe that they are smarter and wiser than those who genuinely know what they are talking about, and who can genuinely tell the difference between sense and nonsense. What's more, when it comes to medicine and science, again, every single one of these "holistic" souls abuses and/or looks down upon real scientific and medical professionals who strictly abide by the principles of science and scientific medicine, without spouting meaningless psychobabbly words such as "holistic", and without dabbling in the myriad forms of quackery that have sprouted like wild mushrooms to lure the increasingly gullible New Age society. Cheers, Santosh Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 3/27/11, Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > Clearly, Ivo and others find the healthcare articles which > I forward to be of > interest and useful. Indeed that is why those authors write > them and reputable > website publish them. > > It is a pity that some have little insights and > forwarding such articles is > "like casting pearls before ....... " > > Regards, GL >
