Nitwits & Why Physicians Lose Credibility

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110. Nor does her passion validate her findings

She has made the claim that her findings will overturn fifty years of accepted scientific understanding, and several here have responded by asking for a more robust defense of those findings than she is able to provide. That's a reasonable and responsible attitude that hardly amounts to "ugly virulence."

Two dozen posts lamenting the recalcitrance of the establishment do not boost her credibility, nor does her lack of rigorous methodology.

Absolutely no one is arguing against helping babies, but it is not clear that her efforts, rather than some other factor, have helped them in the way that she describes. In fact, her experience amounts to anecdote and, while it may call for further investigation, it's far too early to make the definitive, world-changing claims that about her revolutionary course of treatment.

She may be correct, but at this point she has neither the formal training nor the objective experimental data to declare that she is correct.