Posts by Sacha
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bonus thread cross-pollination points
So long as you do it scientifically in a replicable manner, young man. And none of that floatin like a butterfly and stinging like a (bumble) bee.
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Keir, I am not against the scientific method but when the best answer Western medicine has had for over half my life is to try to suppress my immune system, I think it's pretty clear who's taking the piss - the quacks who call themselves rheumatologists and the jumped up little demi-gods who prop them up.
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Though I'm not holding my breath for the medical industry to grow some humility about its limits.
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Just hope your need for a 'tonic' isn't that undiagnosed tumour weighing you down, eh?
Get back to me when western medicine has a clue about arthritis and most other auto-immune or chronic conditions, will you good chap.
Your love of good whisky at least gives me hope you are capable of appreciating beauty in life beyond the scientifically provable.
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Nimoy probably does. Part of his strangeness..
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The engineers didn't just wake up one morning and decide to sanitise drinking water on a whim.
Fair enough.
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I'll see whatever it is chiropractors and osteopaths can for a sore back, and raise you polio, smallpox, scarlet fever, and tetanus. Oh, and modern public health.
Tell it to an engineer. Good sanitation and water supply have saved more lives than doctors ever have.
Still, in the event of a traumatic injury, I know whose hands I'll be putting myself in. It is not me who is all black and white about this - hence the analogy with religious fervour.
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Me too.
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When clinical medicine becomes as good as it thinks it is, my response to the rejoinders above will be more nuanced than "meh".
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No, but they're so horribly put upon by the non-penis bearing half of the human race.
We must be watching a different show. I don't think either gender comes across in a particularly well-rounded light.
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