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“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” -Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. Healthcare has become a field dominated by so-called experts. Self-declared “experts” are typically academic doctors who claim to be sufficiently prestigious that we should trust them blindly. Either they disregard the need to provide any data since they are experts, or their studies are pharmaceutically financed, poor quality, restrictive as to who is being studied, and uti

Although fully normalized in our society, the idea of equating disease to numerical abnormalities has little precedence in healthcare and virtually no evidence of efficacy. It does distill complex medical illness into simplistic numerical categories, and in this way it feeds people’s cognitive needs to sidestep the nuanced and complex face of illness, while providing the medical industrial complex a facile way of creating disease, increasing profit, and selling a deceptive m

“Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everyone.” “It’s not just about losing the weight. It’s about losing the lifestyle and mindset that got you there.” Many people seek to lose weight. Some are truly overweight, some are tinged by a society that values skinny over chubby, some simply feel uncomfortable in their own skin. But, despite so many attributions to the contrary, weight loss is not always a path to better health. People with cancer and severe chronic ill

“Tranquility can’t be grasped except by those who have reached an unwavering and firm power of judgment—the rest constantly fall and rise in their decisions, wavering in a state of alternatively rejecting and accepting things. What is the cause of this back and forth? It’s because nothing is clear and they rely on the most uncertain guide—common opinion.” -Seneca Medical science is typically no more than opinion, crafted by those who profit most by the proliferation of mani