[Tower]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

Tower, you're right. Some posters have been less than respectful to you, and that's too bad.

But the problem with your perspective, regardless of how many anecdotes you relate, is exactly this:


This is the final fall-back position of the conspiracy theorist--and it is this attitude that blinds you to the value of new information. If every bit of information that you could possibly acquire is already pre-interpreted as the product of "billion dollar marketing" packaged for the benighted masses who unlike you are "gullible," then... you are literally incapable of learning anything new about this topic. You literally already know everything you will ever know about it.

No-one's saying science or medicine is perfect. You can't solve this issue by posing a false dilemma between pharmaceuticals and nutrition, or between naturopathy and traditional medicine. Instead--why not a dialogue in which you are prepared to accept that not everyone who disagrees with you is a hopelessly deluded sheep? Where you might accept that other perspectives, and other people, have things to say that might change your mind, or change the way you think?

Otherwise--I think you'll agree--there isn't any point, and we may as well retreat to our internet fortresses and hurl insults at each other.

I totally understand your point and it is very well articulated and received.