It’s politics, not science. I’m withholding my opinion for at least another 1,000 years.

Maybe we should ask the Medical Mediocre?

People love the subject because it gives their personal life and death some kind of cosmic significance.

The New Age needs its own version of the Book of Revelation.

Extensive skin burns often cause gut ulcers (first documented in 1842).

Doctors had failed to relieve her ulcers by killing her H. pylori, and were now planning to remove the entire surface of her stomach to “cure””her condition.

I exclaimed, “Do you realize how NUTS that is? That’s insane!”

She pondered a few seconds, then replied, “You’re right. It is, isn’t it?”

It turned out to be a Mother Engram.

Note —> Engram according to Richard Wolfgang Semon, not Dianetics (although I agree with some of L. Ron Hubbard’s concepts).

“Let us first face the fact that the bodies of specialists that now dominate the creation, adjudication and implementation of needs are a new kind of cartel. They are more deeply entrenched than a Byzantine bureaucracy, more international than a world church, more stable than any labour union, endowed with wider competencies than any shaman, and equipped with a tighter hold over those they claim as victims than any mafia.”

“It is true, nevertheless, that in the end each man kills himself in his own selected way, fast or slow, soon or late.”