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Originally Posted by tynashracing
Dr. of Philosophy? Guess he knows more than a neurosurgeon?
....I'm all for critical thinking.
....Why is it OK for Merck, Bristol Myers, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, etc. to sell us their drugs? And yet, there's skepticism regarding the sale of nutrients or pills from a neurosurgeon and others?
...JCL, may I ask...do you currently work in some type of career or have you worked in the past for money?
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Philosophy studies issues such as knowledge, reason, etc, using a systematic approach. That is exactly who should be running a skeptical thinking site.
We appear to have different definitions of critical thinking.
It is fine for drug companies to sell drugs. Millions of lives have been saved by some of those drugs, but that isn't the issue. The issue is that your hero, a proponent of your theory that profits cause the sale of unnecessary drugs, has just been outed as a vendor of unnecessary drugs. Of course he can sell them. But he can't say that we all need them just because some other evil people are (gasp) making money selling their drugs. And you can't use him as a source for why selling (other) drugs is bad.
A further issue is that his medicine is not based on science, but rather fear.
Not that it is relevant, but yes, I work. General management, engineering, product development related to automotive technologies. Critical thinking plays a big role. And I studied philosophy for a short while a long time ago, a course called the history of scientific reasoning. So don't diss the philosophers 
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Last edited by JCL; 11-09-2012 at 11:45 PM.
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