Had a parent last week not give the vitamin D I prescribed but go to a natural product store and get natural vitamin D….

The preliminary exploratory stage of scientific research is often little more than a Rorschach test – people see in it what they want.

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Really well put. I will be quoting that often.

It’s really a shame that once a positive study is generated that the marketing machine is able to embed an idea so deeply into the culture. And then once better negative studies come out, they are ignored or completely missed. What’s more, somehow people will rationalize in defense of the products even though they probably don’t even know how they obtained the knowledge that “it works”.

Really, it works? Where’d that information in your brain even come from? It’s amazing how promoters of this herbal market have managed to convince people.

I asked two friends at lunch today and both quickly agreed that it works – although they thought of it as a preventative for dementia. They both agreed that if they were offered a prescription for dementia, they would assume it worked better than Ginko.
Both accepted without comment my info about Ginko but later said they would take it. It couldn’t hurt. “Science doesn’t understand everything.”

I give up. Or at least today, I give up.