The medical profession today is little more than a money-making racket
Then I trust you will avoid it and hold onto your money.
In the big scheme of things, they fix very little
You have no idea what you are talking about. I spent decades in the profession and saw thousands of people whose lives were improved by modern medicine. When I started, fatal heart attacks at age 60 or earlier, and massively swollen ankles from congestive heart failure were commonplace, but by the time of my retirement, rare. When I started practicing medicine, diabetic peripheral neuropathy (pain and/or numbness in the limbs and extremities), blindness, and kidney failure were far more common.
Today, I am surrounded by people that have new hips, knees, and intraocular lenses, and who are living full and active lives into their 80's and 90's much more commonly
Your head has been filled with false information, and you dutifully and uncritically serve as a willing vector for its further dissemination. That's irresponsible, even more so that your attacks on evolutionary science, about which you are also misinfomed and disseminating misinformation. But the latter can't hurt anybody, whereas your irresponsible assault on medical science could if you are seen as credible by any reader.
Cannabis, e.g. has been seen to cure
Yeah, I know. I've been an advocate for years. Cannabis is useful in
a large variety of medical conditions as well as for palliation in end-of-life-care
That doesn't fit your conception of the evil, greedy physician trying to keep his patients barely alive to take more of their money before they die, does it?
Real medicine is about getting to the cause of the problem, not simply treating the symptoms.
This comment demonstrates how unqualified you are to comment about medicine.
Oh please.....who doesn't know what a symptom is?
You, it seems. You commented that medications only treat symptoms. I told you that you were wrong, and commented that you must not know what a symptom is. You're still wrong.
What are the secular humanists doing about any of it apart from whining?
I have no interest in defending a compassion, reason and evidence based ideology to a faith based thinker who gets her morals from a book, and her education from the Watchtower..
What are you and your denomination doing for the world besides despising and maligning it?
Well, bully for you. Countless billions do not live in your bubble. If you pretend that they are not there will those people go away?.....is that how secular humanism works?
Who's pretending that unhappy and unfortunate people don't exist? Not I. I'm telling you that it is possible to lead a satisfying life - that my life has been good, as are the lives of untold millions if not billions of people - more than ever in the history of humanity, thanks to the advances brought to us by academia and rational skepticism. You seem to resent that.
It is you pretending that there are no happy people, or that those who claim to be must be selfish and living in a bubble. Sorry, but I have a realistic connection to my world, one derived from experiencing and contemplating it. Your understanding of the world comes from your church, an understanding that is unrecognizable to me. It's hard to believe that we are living in the same world.
My worldview is extremely optimistic compared to yours IMO.
I've never read anybody more pessimistic, nihilistic, or misanthriopic than you. How can you be happy when all you can see is failure and corruption? All you have to offset that is unjustified hope for happiness some day in an imagined paradisiacal afterlife. But not today. Today, you are just biding your time, awaiting the end of life in the hope of something better.
if only optimism could fix the problems
If only berating mankind, science, medicine, and the world were of any use.
