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Originally Posted by JCL
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  |
I think we should have a few beers and discuss critical thinking!
Yeah, in my way of thinking, we've been duped by the "system". I've mentioned before that I'm in finance and have witnessed the abuses within that industry. I've had first hand conversations with big pharma types and have heard the abuses with drugs like Adderall. MD's paid by big pharma to pimp their brand of pills.
It goes on and on and on.
So, when I see someone criticize and it doesn't include the abuses within big pharma...I just can't take them seriously.
However, I've not had a chance to see if Robert Carroll has any skepticisms on big pharma and how they pay MD's to speak at conventions to push their pills.
As for fear...what isn't based in fear today? Govt's based in fear, markets based more in fear today than greed...greed at the top of the pyramid but selling fear to everyone else. I would suggest that fear also plays a big part in how meds are dispensed...just watch tv for a few minutes and you'll see the ads.