Skepticism, shock and resistance | Seth’s Weblog

Each necessary medical innovation of the final 5 hundred years has been ridiculed, undermined and ignored by docs and the medical institution. Each single one. Hand-washing, antibiotics, and the hazards of smoking, simply to choose a few.

This occurs in any system the place experience is valued and the place change could be dangerous.

Simply because the institution doesn’t prefer it doesn’t imply it’s not a good suggestion.

(However, there are many dangerous concepts the institution doesn’t like as nicely).

January 29, 2026