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In reply to the discussion: Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity [View all]bemildred
(90,061 posts)The problem is not what we don't know, the problem is what we think we know that is wrong or simpliifed too much.
I have long since lost track of the things I have been told I must do for my health which I have not done and was later told I do not have to do after all. And my health is excellent (for my age). To balance that I can think of two occasions when I have been more dilatory than was wise about seeking medical help. (As an aside, on one of those occasions, my wife talked me into seeing a chinese herbalist, and boy was that a mistake, I am not a fan of "alternative medicine" either, what I am really a fan of is de-commercialized medicine, non-profit medicine, Doctors with salaries, not the little tin God model of authoritarian medicine we are so fond of here.)
We don't know what causes autism. That's the truth. And we should, therefore, be circumspect, cautious, and open-minded about it.