Bad Science and Why People Believe

This came to me while reading a book "Autism's False Prophets Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the search for a cure" By: Paul Offit M.D. Throughout time there has always been bad science. They used to tie bells on dead bodies in case they came back to life. At one point people believed in blood letting and all kinds of strange treatments that could never be proven. In today's society we have plenty of bad science of our own. People are up in arms about vaccines. Even though the initial study was shown to be flawed (Dr was paid by a lawyer to get the results, data gathered in a very unprofessional/scientific method) people still want to believe vaccines are bad. They want something to blame something to reason what happens when there just isn't an answer available yet. So instead they don't vaccinate their kid and then the kid gets measles and dies. Who to blame there?

Bloodletting

Anything you can think of we have had some strange science come about. We used to treat women with depression by locking them up and shocking them. Really all I am trying to say here is we need to look at the science and not just believe everything that comes out. Look at how many drugs get put on the market only to be pulled because they do nothing or kill people.





How about using your own urine to whiten your teeth. How about to cure step thought or a broken bone. While most of us would say no there are some people who believe in it.

need white teeth try your urine?

How about Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup. Which really is just a deadly cocktail of heroin, pot, morphine and who knows what else. Its purpose is to help relax kiddos. More like knock them out for days.

Mercury you know the stuff that has the worst reputation on earth right now. Was once seen to be therapeutic. Forget the fact that ingesting it really didn't lengthen ones life as they believed it would it just killed them.

The best one I saw out there on the big internet was a cure for impotent men. It was an electrical shock to well you know and was supposed to work I guess like viagra cialis online pharmacy pharmacy works today. I just don't see men lining up for that one.

Any Volunteers to try this one?

How about a lobotomy. Looks like fun. But it was once believed to work and I think it may still be used today in very rare cases. Not as common as it once was.

Or how about some psychic surgery where someone will take your money and pretend to perform surgery removing the bad out of your body.