Remember that the dogmas of the medical community change constantly. A hundred and fifty years ago, what is now considered common hygiene practice was regarded as unnecessary. Seventy years ago, tobacco smoking was seen as relatively harmless. Twenty years ago, low fat, high carbohydrate diets were treated as gospel truth. The shifting sands of mainstream medical dogma do not make alternative medicine true. However, state and Federally government power should be restrained for both mainstream and alternative medicine. If people can be trusted to choose what bread, beer, pants, or appliances they may buy, they should be trusted to make crucial choices in the medical field.
There is corruption in the legal system, as there is corruption in the medical system. The former is a function of government; the latter, while largely privately owned, is heavily regulated and controlled by government. Major players, like pharmaceutical companies, have great influence over the bureaucratic and legislative process. As the numerous Clinton scandals, not to mention countless politicians from time immemorial, money talks, indeed screams. The former is akin to socialism, the latter is crony capitalism. If you distrust the legal system, do you then trust the medical system?
Remember that the dogmas of the medical community change constantly. A hundred and fifty years ago, what is now considered common hygiene practice was regarded as unnecessary. Seventy years ago, tobacco smoking was seen as relatively harmless. Twenty years ago, low fat, high carbohydrate diets were treated as gospel truth. The shifting sands of mainstream medical dogma do not make alternative medicine true. However, state and Federally government power should be restrained for both mainstream and alternative medicine. If people can be trusted to choose what bread, beer, pants, or appliances they may buy, they should be trusted to make crucial choices in the medical field.””
Trust in doctors, as with most scientists, has always been regarded far above trust in lawyers. The list of the misdeeds in the legal profession is too long to review in a single comment; judges taking bribes, sending innocent people to prison, extorting a piece of every business, making a 100,000 regulations-laws-rules for their own benefit, to the complete fabrication of legal attacks on innocent people, to a single contemptible lawyer in a blackrobe throwing out millions of votes for political gain. I’ve sat across the courtroom and watched too many times to stomach watching these shysters put together a string of legal lies to make me wretch for a week. They shysters run every branch of government and are responsible for putting us in this mess called the DC empire. No one can escape their tentacles, no one.
On your side, no one is forcing you to buy pharmaceuticals, or to attend a doctors office.