A partial chronicle of how trusting the science will reliably kill you.
If you trusted “settled science” throughout history, you’d have:
- Taken heroin for your child’s cough (1890s)
- Had your healthy teeth pulled to cure mental illness (1910s)
- Drunk radioactive water for vitality (1920s)
- Smoked cigarettes for your throat, on doctor’s orders (1940s)
- Eaten lead paint chips as a calcium supplement (1940s)
- Lobotomised your sister for being unhappy (1940s)
- Sprayed DDT on the children in the playground (1950s)
- Used asbestos to insulate your child’s bedroom (1950s)
- Taken thalidomide for morning sickness (1960s)
- Eaten margarine for your heart (1970s)
- Avoided all fat and eaten carbohydrates to lose weight (1990s)
- Replaced butter with trans-fat spreads on the doctor’s recommendation (1990s)
Every generation has its medical catastrophe dressed up as health advice. Endorsed by the experts. Printed in the textbooks. Recommended by your doctor. Featured on the front of the magazines in the waiting room. Future generations will look back in horror. Just like we look back at radioactive tonics and cigarette prescriptions and wonder how anyone fell for it.
Now we are told to take statins, vaccinate our children, inject experimental RNA-modifying spike protein factories into our bodies, avoid nicotine and alcohol, and cure cancer with chemotherapy.
One guess how the probabilities are going to turn out over time. Never forget that peer-reviewed published science from reputable journals has proven to be less reliable than a coin toss.
DISTRUST THE SCIENCE. Because scientists and doctors are not only fallible, but their primary incentives are intrinsically corrupt.
Remember, we have a word for science that is reliable. And that word is “engineering”.