No problem, Anna.Annapurna wrote:Excuse me Ben, but I could only watch the first 3 minutes, my time is too precious right now, as I'm working an averge of 11-14 hours a day. I find the commentaries themselves a bit too polemic and suggestive.
Years ago I used to practice shiatsu and give people macrobiotic dietary advice for their health and happiness. I had a bit of an epiphany as I was delivering my daughter. After that moment, I dropped my pre-conceived ideas about 'western medicine' and started to read and listen with more discrimination regarding alternative medicine claims. Then years later, I witnessed the work of selfless health-care professionals who worked tirelessly and selflessly trying to keep my father and older brother alive. I've also witnessed the profound impact of treatment with family members with acute clinical depression.
I also had the opportunity to work in a number of large metropolitan hospitals and had professional and social relationships with clinicians. In my spare time, I organized a number of teams to participate in endurance cycling events and raised many thousands of dollars for unsexy causes such as geriatrics, hyperbaric medicine, and financing of research into trans-cranial magnetic stimulation for patients with treatment-resistent depression.
So impressed was I with the personal and scientific integrity of the people who I was exposed to, I recommended to my daughter a career in medicine some years ago. She is now near the top of the third year in the most prestigious medical faculty in Australia.
I understand that you have a career in alternative therapies, Anna. I'm not attacking you nor the choices you made. And while Dawkins is quite polemical, what he does do in that series is outline,very eloquently, the way in which scientific knowledge is advanced.
With metta
Ben