>Science works, but it appears most people are in no position to figure out how to respond appropriately to scientific findings.
>I don’t know what the solution is, but the pattern is tragic.
There is ( very unfortunately) no solution, for the vast majority of people ( tragedy of the masses if you will). But a tiny minority who are more intellectually gifted can team up and pool their resources ( intellectual or otherwise ) to better their health by equipping themselves with useful information ( i.e what is not junk science ) and perhaps even training themselves medically if needed.
My personal peeve with this tiny minority is that they are often too individualistic ( by virtue of being independent thinkers) to team up.
Side note - the article was behind a paywall, hence could not read it, but genetic tests aside, my understanding is that in mainstream medicine this pattern of over/mis-diagnosis often happens leading to mis/over-treatment, where often the treatment is worse than the supposed disease.
>I don’t know what the solution is, but the pattern is tragic.
There is ( very unfortunately) no solution, for the vast majority of people ( tragedy of the masses if you will). But a tiny minority who are more intellectually gifted can team up and pool their resources ( intellectual or otherwise ) to better their health by equipping themselves with useful information ( i.e what is not junk science ) and perhaps even training themselves medically if needed.
My personal peeve with this tiny minority is that they are often too individualistic ( by virtue of being independent thinkers) to team up.
Side note - the article was behind a paywall, hence could not read it, but genetic tests aside, my understanding is that in mainstream medicine this pattern of over/mis-diagnosis often happens leading to mis/over-treatment, where often the treatment is worse than the supposed disease.