Re:Mainstream Science vs. Anecdotal Evidence

[Guest guest]

The reason so many profesionals are against chelation is particular and

dismissive of " cutting edge " proceedures/interventions/theories in general is

the Galileo Effect. Any time you buck the convention wisdom, however wrong it

may be, you risk persecution for heresy. It may not result in being jailed or

burned at the stake like in days of old, but it is professional suicide. This

couples very conveniently with the psychological phenom where people will gladly

bury their heads in the sand rather than risk upsetting their comfort zone of

understood acceptable knowledge (yes even PhD's can be " afraid of the dark " ).

What is both fascinating and disheartening is how small great minds truly are.

The number of people who consider themselves thinkers who are willing to

publically acknowledge they were wrong is very, very small. That is what

separates the truly genius from the rest; men like Einstein and Hawking were

both free admitters that not everything they came up with was correct, while the

(Pr)Offits and Fombonnes of the world will go to the grave insisting they were

not wrong.

Of course, that does not necessarily mean that they did not know they were wrong

in the recesses of their minds...

[Guest guest]

Also I think that many people are educated these days to the level of Phd or above , not because they are/were particularly deep and novel thinkers but because it was/is a meal ticket to a more secure working life. After having spent many years and many thousands of dollars working to a certain level of expertise they are well aware of the implications of going out on a limb.

Reminds me of the saying,

"Never ask a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it." Or something like that.

Ange

Re:Mainstream Science vs. Anecdotal Evidence

The reason so many profesionals are against chelation is particular and dismissive of "cutting edge" proceedures/interventions/theories in general is the Galileo Effect. Any time you buck the convention wisdom, however wrong it may be, you risk persecution for heresy. It may not result in being jailed or burned at the stake like in days of old, but it is professional suicide. This couples very conveniently with the psychological phenom where people will gladly bury their heads in the sand rather than risk upsetting their comfort zone of understood acceptable knowledge (yes even PhD's can be "afraid of the dark").What is both fascinating and disheartening is how small great minds truly are. The number of people who consider themselves thinkers who are willing to publically acknowledge they were wrong is very, very small. That is what separates the truly genius from the rest; men like Einstein and Hawking were both free admitters that not everything they came up with was correct, while the (Pr)Offits and Fombonnes of the world will go to the grave insisting they were not wrong. Of course, that does not necessarily mean that they did not know they were wrong in the recesses of their minds...