Fw: Eco-extremism

["Syd Levine \(AnaLog\)" <AnaLog@logwell.com>]

> A group of organized quacks have done exactly that.  One good example is

the

> invasive cardiologists and their gross overuse of the angiogram.  Another

> good example is the statin nonsense with respect to lipids.  Those

promoting

> technologies can be as dangerous as luddites opposed to same.  Good

science

> should win out, but that is difficult to achieve in emotionally charged

> areas of study.

>

>

>  Imagine if our people could not

> >  get heart surgery because a group of organized quacks had

> >  convinced the media and enough politicians that scalpels

> >  could be infected and rusty and that this surgery should

> >  stop. Imagine if we could no longer travel outside the US

> >  because the flat-earthers had won their "perception is

> >  reality" game with the public and Congress. These are not

> >  credible scenarios, I realize, but they are parallel

> >  arguments to what we are experiencing.

> >

>





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