25th August 2006, 12:30 PM
What sort of money could he have spent? Any reputable medical institution would not provide any treatment after confirming he did not in fact have cancer.
Oh right, quackery, that'll do. Then again, that's a waste of money even if you did have cancer. Want the stuff of nightmares? How about what this "doctor" decided to do to check if I needed medication? Some relative's husband says "hey I think I'll check to see if you are alligned to this" and starts putting vials of stuff on my stomach and holding my hands together to see if they align correctly. The whole thing was like going through the looking glass, totally insane. What possible mechanism allows the body to somehow detect and react in such a completely strange way to chemicals in a VIAL on my SHIRT? Further, could there possibly be a MORE subjective method of analyzing than seeing if my hands "align"? He just held them together! What testing protocal is in place to prevent the guy from aligning it as he sees fit, either aware of himself doing it or (more likely) unaware he's doing it as in that little psychological effect that makes Ouigi boards "work"?
There's the stuff of nightmares. Seriously, had a dream that night that I was deadly sick and I was getting treated by alice in wonder land style treatments that made no sense at all (even to my logic deprived dream self) and my fear was that I was going to die because I was being treated by crazy people who had no idea what they were doing.
Oh right, quackery, that'll do. Then again, that's a waste of money even if you did have cancer. Want the stuff of nightmares? How about what this "doctor" decided to do to check if I needed medication? Some relative's husband says "hey I think I'll check to see if you are alligned to this" and starts putting vials of stuff on my stomach and holding my hands together to see if they align correctly. The whole thing was like going through the looking glass, totally insane. What possible mechanism allows the body to somehow detect and react in such a completely strange way to chemicals in a VIAL on my SHIRT? Further, could there possibly be a MORE subjective method of analyzing than seeing if my hands "align"? He just held them together! What testing protocal is in place to prevent the guy from aligning it as he sees fit, either aware of himself doing it or (more likely) unaware he's doing it as in that little psychological effect that makes Ouigi boards "work"?
There's the stuff of nightmares. Seriously, had a dream that night that I was deadly sick and I was getting treated by alice in wonder land style treatments that made no sense at all (even to my logic deprived dream self) and my fear was that I was going to die because I was being treated by crazy people who had no idea what they were doing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)