Re: Correcting "Hemochromatosis--Basis Chemistry Lesson"

I do not think the comment a disservice, but the truth. People in the scientific community are blackballed and jobless for blowing a whistle or going against the sacred cow. I have worked long enough around the medical and pharmaceutical industries to see this in action against doctors who would speak out against the status quo. Why? Because it invites litigation and class actions. If they can be shut up, blackballed and discredited fast enough the issue can be swept under the carpet and more money can be made.

Such is the case with many who have spoken out against mercury, aspartame, among a whole host of other issues over the years. While the pressure may begin and end in the business world, religious belief systems, or the political arena, scientists themselves are also just as much to blame for allowing it to happen within their ranks, adulterating "science" to the point that the common man does not know what to believe any more; and in many cases "selling out" for the bucks. They (the scientists) are just as much to blame for standing by, or in a worst case scenario, carrying out the punishment/blackball enforcement along with a good public shaming and dismissal of their colleague's ideas at a national level.

The more public the issue is, the more aggressive the action against the fellow "scientist".

I am surprised you have not seen this over the years. If you are old enough you know this happened with fluoridation, tobacco, and any number of other health related consumer issues.

You said...

"Though I would say that it is the strength of their work not the ruckus that determines how much support they get. Historically all new ideas have had to fight for recognition; round earth, heliocentric model, evolution, atomic model, Big Bang, Mendelian genetics, relativity, string theory, genetic drift, and the list is endless. None of the current ideas were accepted just because someone wrote a paper on it; they all had to be tested to see if they would crack. What you perceive as blindness I interpret as skepticism; a skepticism that forces researchers to prove their ideas under fire and weeds out the bad ones."

The strength of their work over time then... time being months, years, decades or centuries as the case may be. I agree that it does weed out the bad ones... in today's world it also eventually ferrets out those who have falsified case studies, tests, what have you to meet the needs/demands of an employer in order to boost or save their bottom lines (tobacco, chemical and pharmaceutical industries were/are famous for this and then work hard to either cover it up or minimize the damage done to save themselves expensive litigation and class actions) or boost their personal recognition in some way.

It is unfortunate that once the "truth" is known, the damage is already done to the people who trusted the industry/product. Such is the case with pharmaceutical and food related class action suits that prove the industries knew about the problems before the marketing of the goods with their "covered up" science. Is this a bad reflection on science? Absolutely Yes, to anyone who does not understand the nature of it. I agree with you that it is not the Science that is to blame, but the people who use it by cooking the books so to speak and/or twist it for personal gain and profit that are to blame and they should be punished and punished severely especially in cases where literally thousands get sick and lose their lives.

I understood your list of healthful habits not to be a comprehensive one, but it is a good solid basic one.

I do not consider MLs ideas crappy and find them fun and rewarding to explore. I do understand that these things are multidimensional. Right or wrong, history will bear it; perhaps within our lifetimes, perhaps not.

When I stated that Science will never completely understand it I referred not only to alkaline/acid but the added energy component as well, whether that be from a light source, gravitational forces, magnetic fields, or simply the individual's will/thought... all these things change the results of a reaction. Do you know of any research that has studied these effects on the natural processes that occur in the body? Can they be studied accurately when all of them are in a constant state of flux? I find it hard to believe that Science will ever completely understand. Tweet