Nitwits & Why Physicians Lose Credibility

[Orrex]

107. Thank you for summarizing your experience.

I don't doubt that your intentions are good, but at this point you lack the training and authority to make a claim that would invalidate 50 years of established science. That doesn't mean that your claim is therefore false; it means that you simply aren't qualified to assess it scientifically. But in spite of your lack of training and your lack of cachet, you still confidently declare that you're right and they're wrong? On what objective basis?

Your claim also doesn't pass the smell test, to be honest. Even if you yourself can't present a formal report to document your findings, I think that a great many researchers would jump at the chance to be immortalized for upseting half a century of error while simultaneously saving thousands of children. I don't believe that they're all too busy with other projects or that they can't at the very least refer you to others who might take up the torch. Isn't it curious that no one appears ready to endorse your claims? Is everyone part of the dogmatic establishment?

you know what would be *more* inconvenient? Living with myself if I wasn't doing everything I could to get this investigated, including ranting about the fact that nit-wits who don't know their heads from a hole in the ground dismiss the "miracle stories".

This is why you sound like a would-be victim of a conspiracy of suppression, because those who don't accept your amazing (and as yet unverified) theory are "nit-wits who don't know their heads from a hole in the ground." In other words, your idea is correct, but the ignorance of dumb professional scientists is keeping you down.

Do you accept the possibility that your findings might be incorrect? Or are you so certain that you're right that anyone who disagrees must be stupid? Do you see how this is problematic?

Yes, the scientific community *should* be validating or disproving what I am reporting; if I am wrong, then they should be warning everyone about the dangers of this version of "woo" and if I am right, then they should be shouting it from the roof tops.

No, you have it exactly backward. I could as readily demand that the scientific community disprove my perpetual motion machine and every other perpetual motion machine in turn. The revolutionary claim must be supported by the claimant; it need not be refuted by the establishment. That's really the end of it.