The Sting of Ignorance

The harvard professor/author of this truthout piece lives in his own little world of shoulds. He does seem correct in his assumption that people who have doctors and the pharma industry take care of every sniffle have no knowledge whatsoever of the mechanism of action to affect the problem. The use of observation to tell if something works is too often sacrificed for the words written on the label. The experts in the field, the MDs, treat their patients like cattle and are about as learned as their last visit with the sales rep - who was likely a weeded out pre-med student.

Once you've suffered the sling or arrow of outrageous fortune, you deal with it. Not taking out the stinger first is bragging about how much of a dolt a harvard professor can be - nothing more. A yellow jacket sting works the same way. People build up images in their mind that are quite far from having a basis in our reality - but realize it is very real in their reality. Mocking beliefs only draws scorn. But if the first med that anybody took was always a placebo - i bet real pharma drug use would diminish by about 80%.

No question, morphine works for pain, but how many other ingredients do they slip in on you that causes a dependence on some other drug. Drugs treat symptoms, they rarely affect the process. How does it all work? Pay attention and keep a consistent point of view - if things don't work, work them until they fit or can be rejected. You know true and false in relation to your reality. Attempts to conform to other people's reality get you coincidental for a time - but the non-linearity of time and its single direction nature assure that any two people will have a different set of experiences; each must be fit into their sense based reality separately. Fortuately, we do learn.