An article I read the other day just touched upon something very important.
It said that although people have been told that they need to take statins to reduce their cholesterol scientists are realising that statins are not safe, we don't need to take them and that if you do you are more likely to die from cancer. Great, good one the medical profession.
Eating just 2 apples a day will control your cholesterol level with no side effects, well other than the $26billion industry in the USA alone producing statins might suffer as golden delicious take over. But cholesterol is probably not harmful after all, its all to do with inflammation and not cholesterol.
Your GP won't tell you you don't need them after all because he can't be seen to have been wrong, he has also agreed with a supplier to prescribe their Statins. Go on I dare you to ask a GP "is it true statins are dangerous and no one needs them" I bet you get a " I don't know who told you that but statins are the most important drug since ......."
Back to the point, what was also mentioned is that although someone may be a professor or an "important" person with letters after their name maybe even published numerous papers or articles on a subject, if they are wrong they are wrong, no matter how many times they write about something.
No matter how clever, anyone can be wrong, the more they write and publish about a theory the less likely they are to firstly to realise they are wrong, and secondly if they do they find they have been wrong they are very unlikely to stand up and say " hey guys, sorry all the papers I have published in 20yrs are wrong, oops, as you were". The world was once, without question flat remember!
Someone famous once said "a theory maybe taken as fact, but only until another theory comes along".
So next time an eminent person stands up and tells us something is fact say thank you smile and suggest they please contact you again if they change their mind.
Back to the point, what was also mentioned is that although someone may be a professor or an "important" person with letters after their name maybe even published numerous papers or articles on a subject, if they are wrong they are wrong, no matter how many times they write about something.
No matter how clever, anyone can be wrong, the more they write and publish about a theory the less likely they are to firstly to realise they are wrong, and secondly if they do they find they have been wrong they are very unlikely to stand up and say " hey guys, sorry all the papers I have published in 20yrs are wrong, oops, as you were". The world was once, without question flat remember!
Someone famous once said "a theory maybe taken as fact, but only until another theory comes along".
So next time an eminent person stands up and tells us something is fact say thank you smile and suggest they please contact you again if they change their mind.
Remember, the only information you know for certain is true is what you read here ,and if I find I have been wrong I promise I will tell you.
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