Evidence based Medicine, Science & Belief - "Medicine has always occupied an often uncomfortable space between science and belief. Most biochemistry and nutritional studies are not reproducible yet they are considered the gold standard of modern medicine. Where does this leave us? It means we have to have faith or belief in evidence based medicine even when the data is less than reliable. This makes evidence based medicine like religion. It is easy to understand why many aspects of medicine and religion mirror each other. Particularly if we look at one very important aspect of religion. Namely, protection against foul things happening to you when you believe half truths. When humans feel their mortality they look for answers. Religion promised answers through faith and as they failed they were replaced with new religious leaders and beliefs. Medicine promises the same idea, but uses "science" as their prophet. What happens when it fails to produce results. Today we are at that precipice. Science explains thing better than the priest could but its ability to treat maladies are as bad as the explanations of the priests. Medicine usurped science to explain how our world works, and prescribed therapies to protect the public from illness. This position of medicine is now a huge problem. Healthcare and scientific research is now under duress for establishing themselves in the position of ‘certainty’ on how the world of medicine works for humans. It is now a priesthood that proclaims its own 'positions of belief or dogma.' If you are so certain of something and you cannot reproduce your most popular beliefs, how good is your religion really? When the public finds a whole group of patients who feel that their condition is not being treated properly, they begin to come together to get the medicine and science to rethink their current position and mindsets. What happens when the public runs up against brick wall with heart disease, cholesterol statins, and dementia therapy? These public groups gets branded as quacks, alchemists, and pseudoscientists, and will be dismissed by "big science". What happens in this case? The "priesthood and monks" do not take kindly to being exposed as incorrect do they?"

Medicine has always occupied an often uncomfortable space between science and belief. Most biochemistry and nutritional studies are not reproducible yet they are considered the gold standard of modern medicine. Where does this leave us? It means we have to have faith or belief in evidence based medicine even when the data is less than reliable. This makes evidence based medicine like religion. It is easy to understand why many aspects of medicine and religion mirror each other. Particularly if we look at one very important aspect of religion. Namely, protection against foul things happening to you when you believe half truths. When humans feel their mortality they look for answers. Religion promised answers through faith and as they failed they were replaced with new religious leaders and beliefs. Medicine promises the same idea, but uses "science" as their prophet. What happens when it fails to produce results. Today we are at that precipice. Science explains thing better than the priest could but its ability to treat maladies are as bad as the explanations of the priests. Medicine usurped science to explain how our world works, and prescribed therapies to protect the public from illness. This position of medicine is now a huge problem. Healthcare and scientific research is now under duress for establishing themselves in the position of ‘certainty’ on how the world of medicine works for humans. It is now a priesthood that proclaims its own 'positions of belief or dogma.' If you are so certain of something and you cannot reproduce your most popular beliefs, how good is your religion really? When the public finds a whole group of patients who feel that their condition is not being treated properly, they begin to come together to get the medicine and science to rethink their current position and mindsets. What happens when the public runs up against brick wall with heart disease, cholesterol statins, and dementia therapy? These public groups gets branded as quacks, alchemists, and pseudoscientists, and will be dismissed by "big science". What happens in this case? The "priesthood and monks" do not take kindly to being exposed as incorrect do they? .http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/future_tense/2016/04/biomedicine_facing_a_worse_replication_crisis_than_the_one_plaguing_psychology.html