It has come to pass that I have listened to Dr. Dean Edell twice in the last couple of months.
It is so very interesting for me to listen to someone who mixes so much personal opinion in with the "science" that he is declaring that stands behind him in making his opinions. Well, science and his years in medicine-of which he has been doing quite a bit of radio and TV-so we're not quite sure how many years he saw patients. In any case, if you have been in medicine for 30+ years, then you have to know that what you know changes almost daily with the volumes of information that is collected by science, that there is no way one famous doctor can stay on top of it and...you took an oath, "First, do no harm."
At one point, I listened to him denounce gluten intolerance and its effect on the spectral disorders of autism as "fad" and that the science didn't support this claim of reducing/eliminating gluten products for these disorders. Being a person who has seen countless research articles pointing out gluten intolerance as the cause of many hard to diagnose maladies, I think "fad" means "I don't really know, but this is what I think."
Perhaps, Dr. Edell, we should consider a double blind study to find out?
How many of your 6 million listeners have just heard you denounce gluten intolerance as a "fad" and have made the decision to ignore some symptoms they have? Who knows? How many of those people have undiagnosed celiac disease(gluten allergy) which increases their chances of mortality from heart disease and cancers? 1 in 133.
This weekend, I heard him snort and snark through information on the H1N1 vaccine and how people are basically stupid if they don't get it. He cites, of course, the "science" which amounts to how many people died of H1N1 and then, the comparatively small amount of people who reported a reaction to the vaccine when given it.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has questioned H1N1.
The symptoms are so random and well, flu-like that I'd like to know how many of the deaths attributed to H1N1 were actually cultured and determined to be the only factor. And I ask this because I had a female practice member tell me at the beginning of the H1N1 broohaha that she had been diagnosed with it and then diagnosed again a few months later with a separate episode of flu like symptoms. When asked if she had been cultured she said "no" and that it was just the assumption made because of the scare.
This is medical science?!
I appreciate Dr. Dean Edell for his genuine interest in science. I also would like he and most of his colleagues to go back to school and take some actual courses on scientific research.
It is so very interesting for me to listen to someone who mixes so much personal opinion in with the "science" that he is declaring that stands behind him in making his opinions. Well, science and his years in medicine-of which he has been doing quite a bit of radio and TV-so we're not quite sure how many years he saw patients. In any case, if you have been in medicine for 30+ years, then you have to know that what you know changes almost daily with the volumes of information that is collected by science, that there is no way one famous doctor can stay on top of it and...you took an oath, "First, do no harm."
At one point, I listened to him denounce gluten intolerance and its effect on the spectral disorders of autism as "fad" and that the science didn't support this claim of reducing/eliminating gluten products for these disorders. Being a person who has seen countless research articles pointing out gluten intolerance as the cause of many hard to diagnose maladies, I think "fad" means "I don't really know, but this is what I think."
Perhaps, Dr. Edell, we should consider a double blind study to find out?
How many of your 6 million listeners have just heard you denounce gluten intolerance as a "fad" and have made the decision to ignore some symptoms they have? Who knows? How many of those people have undiagnosed celiac disease(gluten allergy) which increases their chances of mortality from heart disease and cancers? 1 in 133.
This weekend, I heard him snort and snark through information on the H1N1 vaccine and how people are basically stupid if they don't get it. He cites, of course, the "science" which amounts to how many people died of H1N1 and then, the comparatively small amount of people who reported a reaction to the vaccine when given it.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has questioned H1N1.
The symptoms are so random and well, flu-like that I'd like to know how many of the deaths attributed to H1N1 were actually cultured and determined to be the only factor. And I ask this because I had a female practice member tell me at the beginning of the H1N1 broohaha that she had been diagnosed with it and then diagnosed again a few months later with a separate episode of flu like symptoms. When asked if she had been cultured she said "no" and that it was just the assumption made because of the scare.
This is medical science?!
I appreciate Dr. Dean Edell for his genuine interest in science. I also would like he and most of his colleagues to go back to school and take some actual courses on scientific research.
Dr. Sarah Westcott
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