Hitting two big visitor milestones
Wow, congratulations, that's pretty amazing
- spahi992posted 10 years ago
0 Ahhh, the good old blue paint for the house....I hope you got one with a purple accent to get the full benefit of those blueberry antioxidants that prevent ageing!
Although I must say I prefer the avocado paint, lots of bioactive phytochemicals under the skin, plus all the heart heath benefits of omega-9 fatty acids
Hi Kelley Eidem.
There will always be people who claim that nature couldn't possibly provide what's needed to restore health in a dying person. They fail to see that most pharmaceutical products began as an attempt to extract or replicate one of nature's healing components.
I will go and read your hub in a moment. First, however, I will mention that my husband had an overwhelming urge to eat chillies for years while he was fighting a brain tumour. It used to annoy me immensely when he added chillies to everything he ate, including his buttered toast in the mornings.
We tried a myriad of alternative therapies (and yes, we have a mountain of evidence that he had a brain tumour). It was only days after he had the all-clear that all remaining tumour had disappeared that we saw on the news that research by John Hopkins and a US university (can't remember which) showed that the size of a tumour can be shrunk by up to 80% using chillies alone.
I'm sure the cynics won't believe it, but his appetite for chilli subsided. Would his approach work for everyone? Probably not. I doubt I could ever eat as much chilli as he did.
I don't condemn people who pray for a cure to their cancer, despite the fact that it doesn't work for most. Funny how so many of those who would choose prayer are quick to condemn those who choose mother nature.
I'm off to read your hub.I felt like an absolute idiot after complaining (not always, but often enough) that he was ruining my culinary delights by adding chillies to everything. We also use a lot of garlic. Ever since that study was released, I have happily chopped up half a dozen hot chillies (hotter than jalapenos) and cooked his meal separately to ours at least once a week.
So pleased he doesn't feel the need to eat them all the time anymore though.
We grow lots of organic herbs on our small farm and use them in all kinds of medicinal ways. I grow more chillies, garlic, comfrey and other herbs than anyone else I know. I'm forever providing herbs to people who are sick, yet only a few of them bother to set up their own gardens.
I seriously considered writing a hub about chillies and cancer years ago, but didn't because I thought I'd just get branded a quack. lol. I write about a few natural remedies, but the most 'out there' ones I just share face to face with friends.
What a shame drug companies are allowed to sell products that come with warnings of side effects including death, and have sadly abysmal success rates yet remain accepted by the masses as a good thing.
Then, as soon as a suggestion is made that you can heal yourself with cheap products from a grocery store, people become outraged. I would understand it if pharmaceuticals could heal every ailment ... but they can't, they don't, and they often make a bad situation even worse.
And we are all waiting for you to write that better Hub.
I think the problem is that scientific discovery has been the territory of the educational, corporate, and governmental institutions for about a century, leading to the idea that they are the natural authority for medical discovery, and that any medical science coming from outside the loop is, perforce, quackery.
It's even deemed dangerous - "could be fatal," as one poster here has put it. To me, that suggests we are direly fearful of the territory of scientific discovery being in individual hands and much prefer it to be in the hands of the checks-and-balances we are familiar with. In other words, we'd rather institutions be responsible for risking, and saving, our lives, not ourselves.
But are those checks and balances really more committed to saving us, or even scientific verisimilitude? I don't think so, because science as it should be ideally performed is unbelievably, hellishly expensive. How often are studies repeated? Hardly ever. How often is methodology challenged? Not very. How often are the interests of the researchers questionable? Pretty often. I don't actually see a lot of quality control there, and I do see a lot of conflicts of interest. But there is some. We cling to that idea - that some quality control is better than people randomly thinking they can help the human condition without the proper credentials and funds.
It's interesting...I almost majored in the history and philosophy of science because it's so fascinating how we interpret scientific knowledge. Anyone read Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution? Changed my world many years ago...
Anyway, many folks - some of them scientists, but ironically mostly not - have strange ideas about the way science is actually done. They believe that empirical science is based on objective thinking. It's not actually about objective thinking at all. Science has always been about subjective, not-disinterested thinking that is explored empirically (using a set methodology).
Thus, scientific discovery comes about not because of any logical reason, but because of creativity. Guesses. Anecdotal events. Serendipity. Desperation. Whatever.
Then experimentation happens - but only if it is seen in the resourcing society as worthwhile. Science is limited by resources; since our resources are limited, we filter out many, many good ideas that are not resource-friendly. Further, we use strongly subjective filtering criteria to judge worthiness - like educational certification (seems objective, but it's gone through its own filtering process), social status, and commercial viability.
This helps with quality control, but it also delays the exploration of potentially revolutionary discoveries.
I, personally, think that the Internet and the ability of the anecdote to be recorded forever and for people to spontaneously form "flash mob research" ("I'll try it too and report my results, 'kay?) are a huge data boon for science, if science will only stop competing with it and start acknowledging it.
But the war continues, because it is a war of territory - does scientific authority belong exclusively to the institutions, or also, possibly, to other social formations, like smaller, spontaneous groups (such as online forums and comment threads) and even individuals? Would be nice if we could share..Thank you, Fiction Teller, for making perfect sense.
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