Education & accreditation IMHO
Funny how I usually find what people learn at medical school is what the
pharmaceutical companies and the current medical powers that be want
them to learn. Does that really mean they know stuff? Or that they know
what they are doing?? Even more importantly, does it really mean they
give a whit about me if they aren’t able to make massive bucks off of
some ‘cure’ they have found???? I don’t think so, personally.
And this accreditation thing.. WHO decides what is worthy of
accreditation??? If you really trust the source of it, sure.. but the
GOVERNMENT???? geeeeeez.. talk about putting a fox to watch the hen
house!!
I think every single one of us is thoroughly capable of finding out as
much, if not more (because we aren’t being brain-washed by the drug
cartel!) about truly getting healthy than any one of these ‘accredited’
idiots. NOW if WE are too lazy, naive, foolish, etc., to do our own leg
work and fall for those snake oil sales people, who is really to blame??
The government??? The snake oil sales person?????? I think not! Get
honest!! You have no one to blame but yourself if you fall for some
idiot scheme out of your own greed, desperation, or foolishness (and it
is usually out of one of those reasons, underneath it all, eh?).
But of course, this way you can blame the snake oil salesman, or the
government or whatever and believe yourselves just helpless victims of
some unscrupulous meanie who is obviously more clever than yourself and
that there was nothing wrong with what you chose to do, in response to
them because they ‘took advantage of you’. *pout* So goes America the
litigious. *rolls eyes*
And believe me, a degree is nothing more than a piece of paper that cost
a lot of money and took a lot of time & writing. I should know! I have a
March 20th, 2005 at 1:19 pm
Hi Annie,
I absolutely agree with you - very well-written. What is remarkable
to me is how far behind on the latest thinking most credentialed
people are. My only reservation is that some people are not as able
to do research as we are - for reasons of IQ, illness, brain fog from
mercury etc, - just lack of computer skills and time. Those are the
people who need a little protection. But neither a degree or the
government can provide the protection they need.
I guess I finally have to trust that we all meet the people we need
to meet in order to learn what we need to learn. That may sound a
little wahwah but it has worked for me over the years.
I used to tell people with great enthusiasm everything that was
working for me and then I saw how few people wanted to hear it and I
shut up. Now I am tempted to speak up again and let whoever wants to
hear me listen. Their choice.
Pam
March 25th, 2005 at 12:38 am
Hi Pam…
Yes, I do agree that some people are less able to really comprehend what
they need, but I am guessing they must have someone who cares for them
and can do the leg work, if that is what they really want. And I believe
you are right in that just because the ‘government’ approves of the
snake oil person or that person has a degree, it still doesn’t make them
less of a snake oil person.. probably they just have great lobbyists
like the pharmaceutical companies! Actually, when you consider the
truly horrendous medications those docs push down our throats at great
cost in to us in both money and health, you would have to say probably
your average medical doctor is probably one of the worst offenders of
snake-oil-ism there is!
We all need to take responsibility for ourselves, is what I believe.
Truly we can’t depend on any outside source to have our best interests
at heart. Not even Dr. Welby or Dr. Kildare… I kinda think now that
those shows were as much propaganda as anything, despite how adorable
Richard Chamberlain looked in those Dr. duds. = ) For sure, the
medical industry in all it’s forms stands to lose billions if we all
just say.. "well, thanks for your opinion, Doc, but I have been using
this herbal remedy and it is working much better than all your pills."
Even worse yet, we might even start asking "Doc, if all your medicine
is supposed to make me better, why am I getting sicker and sicker, and
needing more of it??" Oh how the powers that be hate an educated
public. Makes us ever so hard to control.
And like you, I pretty much have gotten to the point where I say what I
believe, what’s worked for me, and if others want to disregard it, that
is fine. I have done my part. Whether or not they want to hear me is
about their life lessons, not mine. And if they choose to suffer and
die for no reason other than they are buying the biggest snake oil pitch
of all time, then that is their choice as you say. I have done my part
and for sure *I* am not gonna die from that garbage. = )
freepam0 wrote:
> Hi Annie,