The slippery slope of modern medical reporting : part 2

Abstract

Part 2 of the article. Medical literature is littered with words like “may”, “possibly”, “associated with” and “could”. These words allow indefinite conclusions, exceptions and failures, so that no one is ever “wrong”. Nutritional and conventional medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry, have a long history of issuing recommendations that are later found to be incorrect and have to be amended. Information is widely disseminated as fact, when in reality it is little more than a guess. Unproven theories are then incorporated into people’s lives under the guise of “practicing good health”. It can take decades for false information to be purged out from the “common knowledge” that is tainted with it.