charliehall,
Apologies from this gnat who deserves no medical whatsoever care because he dares ask questions regarding the Great Priests of capital-S Science and their multi-billion dollar industry of holy sacraments for the imposition to your time.
“So say the results from two huge randomized clinical trials”
כה אמר המדענים, should we read these papers with the trop used for leining the Torah, or the Haftarah?
“Basically, if you don’t accept their results you should never ever waste your time going to see any doctor for anything”
There’s a difference between not accepting the results of a trial, and questioning whether the right questions were asked in the first place, or whether enough time has elapsed to get the answers. And given how science is fundamentally based on asking questions, it’s amazing how medical scientists and doctors in particular get really angry and bothered by questions. My field endures more questions and gets less respect overall than medical science, and deals with implications that are just as big as medicine, yet I don’t get angry when people question and doubt findings, even when those questions and doubts come from a lack of knowledge. Many times through listening I find that it’s not the science that they are rejecting, but the policies advocated in response to those findings. And those discussions are both valuable and productive.
“because you do not believe in modern medical science”
Since when does “science” ask for our belief? If you set up Science as a new religion, is it any wonder that religious Jews resist conversion to it?
“I have not seen any medical treatment that has been shown to be so effective, with so few serious adverse events, ever in my career”
Amazing what can be done when trials are designed from the outset to succeed.