These links further explore the concept of evidence based medicine and how it may (not) apply to the various modalities of natural medicine – e.g. how do you control for massage treatment?

Article: Circular instead of hierarchical: methodological principles for the
evaluation of complex interventions by Wallach et al, BMC Medical Research Methodology 2006, 6:29
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/6/29

Article: Deconstructing the evidence-based
discourse in health sciences: truth,
power and fascism, by Holmes D. et al
Int J Evid Based Healthc 2006; 4: 180–186
http://dcscience.net/holmes-deconstruction-ebhc-06.pdf

Evidence-based medicine and naturopathy:
http://epubs.scu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=hahs_pubs&sei-redir=1#search=%22copy+of+article+institutional+corruption+in+medicine+bmj%22

Article: Science for Sale….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/dangerous-spin-doctors-7-_b_747325.html

(Excerpted texts and concepts from http://www.trufax.org/ )

On the mystique of perceived authority. The maintenance of the “authority mystique” depends on:

- Limiting access to information
- Limiting access to choices that challenge the position of the “authority”

Groups in power pretend absolute objectivity and, because they are emotionally and promotionally involved, develop tunnel vision.

Science Taboos:

Many of the social control taboos in society have been inherited from science – what’s real, what’s not real, what we can talk about intelligently and what is considered superstitious or ‘pseudo-science’.

In general, the rule is, if you can measure something, manipulate it, predict its function and then replicate it (control the outcome of experiments on it), it is considered to be scientific and real. If not, it is illusion.

People are programmed to accept this approach because it reinforces the idea of control over the environment. This reduces knowledge down to a matter of control; we are led to believe that knowing something means being able to control it – the classic control paradigm on which our society is based.

We grant the scientific community this “authority” and are programmed not to question it, even if it flies in the face of observed (but not reproducible – i.e. “anecdotal”) evidence.

As human beings, however, this paradigm does not make us happy, either individually or globally. The blueprint for our families, schools, businesses, governments is dysfunctional. It is causing our shared social systems to operate abusively and to make us sick as a result. Happy people do not become addicted. Healthy systems do not foster addiction. Healthy systems do not promote life-destroying substances into the biggest growth industry on the planet.

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