I can understand the sarcasm and respect your take
Science has helped reduce mortality at birth and manage or even eliminate a lot of diseases like malaria, HIV, small pox, polio and many more. Also for burns, broken bones and accidents. And continues to. I advocate vaccines. I myself took the Anti Covid shot 3 times. And use medicines and supplements regularly.
There’s another side to it though.
At what point do I just take an Adderall that’s prescribed to me? Or a pain killer? Rather than trying preventive lifestyle cures? We need a way to tell when to apply what but IMHO in practical life what gains ground is what serves the providers more rather than the beneficiaries. An interesting example is that Anaesthesia was a more quickly adopted invention than Anti-Septic. Even though the latter is more important for the safety of patients. But the former makes life easier for docs, hence it was adopted much faster.
There is a place for both and knowing when to apply which is key. You cannot trust HCPs using allopathy aka science backed by academia in every case cause they’re motivated by self interest and aren’t perfect! Even people like Gabriel Weinberg have acknowledged this in his book Super Thinking when touching upon inefficiencies in healthcare and academia.
I believe that to be able to trust science more we need to save science from p-value manipulation by self-interest groups…
You don't trust doctors but you took the covid jab three times? I accept that I will never understand some people. If anything the covid jab is the reason we're not going to get longevity anytime soon. The medical establishment destroyed all the trust and hope people had in the future of biotechnology with that thing.
When you say you’ll “never understand some people,” it sounds less like a statement about me and more like a limitation you’ve accepted for yourself. From a psychological perspective, that reads as defensiveness — dismissing what feels uncomfortable rather than trying to process it. It might be worth asking yourself why you feel the need to provoke instead of engage.
Because if you zoom out enough you'll learn that we're all one... so I believe in doing what's right. Your comment deserved that response because it's doing exactly what I've described. Anyways, take care! Hope you get a hug from someone today :) (even that helps with strengthening the immune system because it stimulates your thymus gland which then releases the good hormones you need).
The COVID vaccines are an absolute miracle of modern medicine and it's people like yourself who have turned it into a tragedy.
Without the hysterical and scientifically illiterate people complaining about the COVID vaccines, we very likely could've had a renaissance of investment into next generation biotech platforms like mRNA. Instead, they "have" to be destroyed because the woke right can't read a scientific paper and real information takes more than a tweet or TikTok video to convey.
Yeah, they noticed when their lives kept getting longer and longer thanks to science and evidence-backed policy.