I agree wholeheartedly in most of what you say, except that 'we' should discard everything 'they' have ever said. This is very post-modernist and abandoning EVERYTHING so that 'we' can review everything is an enormous undertaking alone, and beyond impractical. There is proof about the efficacy of the polio vaccines for one thing, as we never see it in our daily lives.
I agree wholeheartedly in most of what you say, except that 'we' should discard everything 'they' have ever said. This is very post-modernist and abandoning EVERYTHING so that 'we' can review everything is an enormous undertaking alone, and beyond impractical. There is proof about the efficacy of the polio vaccines for one thing, as we never see it in our daily lives.
If someone cheats you in business, you don't do business with them again unless there is no alternative. And if someone tells you a series of lies, you no longer trust statements they make.
That's called common sense and falls within the remit of the old Italian proverb "He that deceives me once, it’s his fault; but if twice, it’s my fault." which was first documented in “The Court and Character of King James,” written by Anthony Weldon in 1651. The English version is of course "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me". There's nothing post-modernist about it at all.
And you, or I (or anyone else) don't need to review everything. I just need to review any treatments proposed to me. And that's not an enormous and impractical undertaking at all. In fact it's probably something I should have done all along.
Specifically wrt to polio, I believe that in India the vaccine works, at least in part, by simply re-defining the diagnosis. In other words any child who gets polio symptoms after receiving a vaccine is diagnosed with something called "non-polio acute flaccid paralysis". The exact same symptoms would be diagnosed as polio in any child who had not been vaccinated. Thus polio disappears, only to be replaced by a larger epidemic of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis. See how that works? And how similar it is to the type of statistical fraud we have seen during the covid era?
I am not aware whether or not a similar position prevails, or even if any studies have been done, in more developed nations.
I agree with your point about taking personal responsibility for reviewing the treatments proposed to you. That endeavor still requires access to trusted sources of information. Doing that due diligence in the pre-internet 70's and 80's would be a much different task that doing so today.
I agree wholeheartedly in most of what you say, except that 'we' should discard everything 'they' have ever said. This is very post-modernist and abandoning EVERYTHING so that 'we' can review everything is an enormous undertaking alone, and beyond impractical. There is proof about the efficacy of the polio vaccines for one thing, as we never see it in our daily lives.
If someone cheats you in business, you don't do business with them again unless there is no alternative. And if someone tells you a series of lies, you no longer trust statements they make.
That's called common sense and falls within the remit of the old Italian proverb "He that deceives me once, it’s his fault; but if twice, it’s my fault." which was first documented in “The Court and Character of King James,” written by Anthony Weldon in 1651. The English version is of course "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me". There's nothing post-modernist about it at all.
And you, or I (or anyone else) don't need to review everything. I just need to review any treatments proposed to me. And that's not an enormous and impractical undertaking at all. In fact it's probably something I should have done all along.
Specifically wrt to polio, I believe that in India the vaccine works, at least in part, by simply re-defining the diagnosis. In other words any child who gets polio symptoms after receiving a vaccine is diagnosed with something called "non-polio acute flaccid paralysis". The exact same symptoms would be diagnosed as polio in any child who had not been vaccinated. Thus polio disappears, only to be replaced by a larger epidemic of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis. See how that works? And how similar it is to the type of statistical fraud we have seen during the covid era?
I am not aware whether or not a similar position prevails, or even if any studies have been done, in more developed nations.
Well said. Thanks.
I agree with your point about taking personal responsibility for reviewing the treatments proposed to you. That endeavor still requires access to trusted sources of information. Doing that due diligence in the pre-internet 70's and 80's would be a much different task that doing so today.