By Marvin Schissel — February 27, 2018
"The Quack is a personage too essential to the comfort of society to be deprived of his vocation. He is, in fact, the Physician of the Fools, a body whose numbers and respectability are by far too great to admit of anything of the kind." ("Punch", 1845)
Many well-educated, skeptical people suffer from a failure of logic when it comes to matters of health. Some studies even suggest that the more educated the person, the more likely they are to fall for some form of quackery. A major logical failing of the educated, although it is rarely recognized for what it is, is instead simply prejudice. Too many believe they have gained some secret insight because of their wealth or reading and decide that everything "organic" is good, while conventional "chemicals" are somehow unhealthy, that "natural" is good, and "artificial" is bad.
This is just prejudice. The wise question is not whether something is "natural" or "artificial", "new" or "old", "organic" or "conventional", but simply whether something is good or bad. Not all chemicals are bad, and not everything natural is good. And all that is original and novel is not necessarily good.
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise (Liebnitz)...........To Read More....
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