jongalt1962's comments

It's neither fair, nor accurate. While genetics can be a minor factor, all mental health issues are primarily caused by metabolic problems. See Dr. Chris Palmer's book Brain Energy (2022) and/or Dr. Georgia Ede's new book (2024). It's amazing what eating a proper human diet can do for your health.

The authors have done the work for me? Hmmm. I don't think that's how it works. In order for me to evaluate any particular paper, I have to read it myself and evaluate it myself. I have to identify implicit premises, I have to ask, did they follow the scientific method? Does their data make sense? Are they missing alternative explanations? Does their conclusion match their initial hypothesis and/or their data? And many other questions. No one can do that for me. And as I said in another comment, there are too many corrupt incentives to produce predetermined outcomes. Thanks for providing the links, I expect that they will be enlightening, in one way or another. Please let me know how you determine the validity of scientific paper.

Yes, I only recall a couple of doctors - there may have been more. The actual question to ask though, is how many patients? Another question to ask is who financed the "SOLIDARITY and RECOVERY" trial that you seem to place so much faith in. And was it scientifically valid? Too much "science" these days is corrupted by economic, political and ideological incentives, so I am suspicious of all of it. This leads me to trust anecdotal evidence more than I should, but what else is there? Even though anecdotal evidence is a relatively weak form of evidence, it is still evidence and it still counts for something. The only alternative is to do a deep dive into every allegedly scientific study out there, that one is interested in, and evaluate it.

Early on in the pandemic a couple of doctors around the world reported that a combination of drugs, including hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc was successful in treating Covid-19. As long as it wasn't too late, i.e., the patient wasn't already on a ventilator. Those 2 drugs are inexpensive and plentiful, so they could've stopped the pandemic early on, before the lockdowns and vaccine mandates. I leave it to you, to speculate why this knowledge was suppressed.

It just occurred to me recently that AI could and should be set up to replace peer reviews of scientific papers. (See the book "Science Fictions"). I asked ChatGPT v3.5 what it would take to do exactly that and what the algorithm would look like. I was very impressed with the response. Looking further down the road, if we connect AI to reality to any significant degree and train it to be completely objective, the powers-that-be will ban it. After all, they have their narratives to push and their propaganda to spew. I no longer ask myself why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong.

Compartmentalization. I once had physics teacher in senior high school who taught the Scientific Method. And taught it well. I will always be grateful to him for that. But he was deeply religious and led the high school's bible study club.