Thread by @sankrant

Western medicine is not “evidence-based medicine.” It is authority-based medicine. It must be certified by the Church of medicine, a controlled ecosystem, to be valid.

Anything not certified is “heresy” aka “quackery.” People can’t decide if it works for them. Authorities must.

Evidence is pratyaksha. But there is a superstructure of authority to certify what is evidence. Who controls that? Who owns journals? What gets certified? Doctors can even be sued in the US for "un-certified" use even if they rely on years of experience.

https://twitter.com/dr_dsandeep/status/1330379504259362816?s=20

I am not questioning evidence but the privilege of the structure of authority over evidence—authority-certified shabd pramana overrides pratyaksha pramana.

Which is why it is authority-based, not evidence based. Let's not get into "true science" fallacy.

https://twitter.com/Sanatanastika/status/1330424177753350144?s=20

"Alternative" medicine is attacked—as not "certified" by the authority. The narrative used will be that it is not "evidence-based" but the certifying authority has neither the capacity nor the inclination to gather the evidence. Doesn't fit the doctrine.

https://twitter.com/PunjabiAngry/status/1330424225807659008?s=20

A lot of Western medicine is (badly) poached. Many remedies are extracts of traditional remedies after the chemicals are isolated, the original is attacked and the certified cure packaged and sold at 100x the cost.

But here they protect their turf.

https://twitter.com/amitsurg/status/1330205070181478410?s=20

This illustrates the Church of Medicine.

It is a letter of religious doctrine. It claims Indian medicine should only be based on "original texts" and Western medicine must remain "pure" with no "violation of identity." 🤣

Excommunication is threatened for teaching unbelievers.

@subhash_kak's knowledgeable thread.

Good to see that what I perceive via intuition is also being articulated via some (heretic) academia (which is largely the new Church).

https://twitter.com/sethi_ajay/status/1330430505276334081?s=20

Under British Raj, surgery was removed from Ayurveda, where it was very advanced. Surgery has little to do with allopathy per se, it's not bound to a particular system of pharmacology. Restoring surgery to Ayurveda will challenge monopoly of Western medicine. That's the fear.

I haven't consulted an allopathic doctor in years. My personal physician in Seattle is a naturopath. Growing up, my family did not use allopathy either.

China is now running major hospitals based on Chinese medicine and that is the most common modality.

https://twitter.com/digitanto/status/1330457267590758400?s=20

And far as surgery goes, once the modality is restored to Ayurveda and we have trained surgeons, I would prefer that any day over an allopathic hospital for surgery. Why? Because Ayurveda has a much more finely-grained understanding of diet and post-op care; would help recovery.

Wait for the atrocity literature to start coming out on this soon.

https://twitter.com/TourismAyurveda/status/1330412483354517504?s=20

The state of surgery in Europe in the 19th century before they encountered Indian knowledge—half the patients who underwent surgery died. Their instruments were more primitive than those from India a thousand year earlier. We have a fantasy about the West.
news.com.au/lifestyle/heal…

Oh they were already legalized. How do you think they made a trillion dollars selling Statins using authority-based medicine to line their pockets while helping no patients. 😏

Multi-decade multi-instituional quackery.

https://twitter.com/the_sad_medico/status/1330552558574833664?s=19

Would "evidence-based medicine" actually have survived multi-decades of mal-prescription?

nhs.uk/news/medicatio…

Another insightful article by Dr. @subhash_kak

“The case against [medical] science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.” Editor of Lancet.

But “Faith” sustains the @raghurajs_hegde kinds.

subhashkak.medium.com/the-reproducib…

There is very little accountability for medical "scientific" quackery. They can poison people, delay cure with a focus on annuity drugs (which patients have to take for a lifetime for increased $), get away with horrible side-effects, with no recourse.

https://twitter.com/Sense_God/status/1330844332333559808?s=20