It’s not that some of the stuff they tout has been disproven. They just have not been proven to do as claimed. Maybe some of them will pan out. Frankly, I hope so, as they’re extrapolating from some current innovative, cutting edge ideas.
But passing them off as safe and effective and ready for application to the general populace now is waaaay premature.
You may very well. But WE don’t know what you’re talking about.
Good. Offered in what way? As empirical data? Than you can. As an idea which found a hole in your testing abilities it can go very far too. This is what I am interested in.
Please elaborate! I am also interested!
The concept of “a hole in your testing abilities” is equivalent to a very common justification used by defenders of quackery/unproven claims - “your science cannot measure my woo!”.
This is typically couched in terms of contempt for “reductionist Western medicine” and praise for anecdotes.
Actually, virtually any system of “healing” can be tested scientifically - even those where you’d think it impossible. As an example, acupuncture has been evaluated using a device which simulates piercing the skin but does not actually do so (“sham” acupuncture). Oddly enough, both “sham” acupuncture and needling in places that do not conform to classical acupuncture theory have been shown to produce as much clinical benefit as the “real thing”, suggesting that rather than relieving symptoms through altering “chi”, acupuncture’s effects are due to placebo.
I have no problem with certain of the precepts expounded by advocates of “functional medicine”, including individualization of therapy when possible. As mentioned earlier in the thread, where “functional medicine” goes off the rails is when it pretends to use good standard medical practice on an exclusive basis, exaggerates principles beyond good science and clinical utility, and serves as a marketing technique to promote use of therapies and supplements not validated by good evidence.
Bullshit. At least get the names of the universities right if you are going to appeal to authority. My fellow alums will appreciate it.
I believe that Yura is claiming that his or her insanity is proof of… something. Something German, perhaps.
That’s what Occam’s Razor is for.
Mutations that increase the number of viable offspring in a population aren’t “wrong”. Likewise, explanations that “work” aren’t wrong either. The scientific method is one of the ways we can discover if a given explanation “works” - that is, accounts for all the known factors.
Regards,
Shodan
So you’re saying that you don’t even know what claims Function Medicine has made? Not a good sign.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice of him/her top drop by after 4+ years. No point in responding as he/she says they won’t be back.
TruSeeker, are you posting from Dr. Grisanti’s computer?
TruSeeker, did you see the many posts in which people asked for peer-reviewed evidence supporting drgrisanti’s claims?
You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the ducks…
Not Having a Doctorate.
By doing my own research*, I have found that Dr. Grisanti, chiropractor and functional medicine specialist De Luxe, is still cranking out revelatory articles. For instance, he’s suggesting that the guy who crashed the Germanwings plane didn’t do so because he was mentally ill - no, it probably was due to antidepressant medication (which according to news reports he had stopped taking).
The Gris has his own theories on what causes depression, including “invisible brain toxins”.
I must go now, since there are lives to be saved instead of wasting time on you ignorant savages.
*in the world of woo, “do your own research” means “scour the Internet for people who are just as big a wackadoodle as me”.
Ah, but how do you know TruSeeker supports Dr. Grisanti’s claims? There’s no mention of who was close minded, just that some people were, and that some, possibly others, were rude.
Well, that actually sounds plausible. People who have been taking meds (especially brain meds) and then quit taking same sometimes do weird shit.
Since this appears to be an admission of having a previous account here, I am banning this one. Since this thread was raised pointlessly, I’m closing it.