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What Mark Twain Says About Health Decisions
Category: Why Didn't I Think Of That?
Who would think Mark Twain has anything to say about health care or our personal health decisions? Well, it turns out that Steve Pavlina does. A short excerpt from his thought-provoking post:
Health Studies Are Worthless to Those Who Care About Health
Often people ask me what I think of the latest health study about the benefits of X or the harmful effects of Y.I usually tell them I consider it meaningless.
Here are four reasons why I don't rely on "scientific" studies for making personal health decisions... and just to make it more interesting, I'll splice in some Mark Twain quotes:
1. Everyone has an agenda.
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain
Fat doctors write health books with nearly identical openings: "Here's why everyone else is wrong and I'm the only one who's right." Health magazines are owned by supplement makers. Drug companies sponsor TV news programs. People retire from the FDA to take up lucrative positions in the pharmaceutical industry, sometimes after owning stock in the companies whose drugs they were responsible for approving. I could spend a lifetime trying to sort it out, but I wouldn't have enough fingers for all the finger pointing.
I'm not suggesting every agenda is negative or evil... just that accuracy isn't always the #1 concern.
After reading Steve's article, I am wondering what Will Rogers has to say about Tort Reform?
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