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ETHICS
Ethics, Science,
Society, and Lapdog Joes
Majid Ali, M.D.
What Is Ethics?
Ethics is the study of the consequences of one’s
actions on others, as well as those of one’s
inaction when action is needed.
What Is Science? Who Is
A Scientist?
Science is the process of
observing natural phenomenon. A scientist observes
natural phenomena and integrates new observations
with old ones to advance knowledge and
understanding. A journalist observes and reports on
what is observed. A society advances when both
groups are loyal to the truth. Lapdog Joes are watch
dog journalists who morph into lapdog journalists.
Regrettably, the fields in healing arts, there have
been invaded by lapdog Joes, there are few, if any,
journalistic watch dogs.
Recently, a research scientist
asked me to name one scientific advance in medicine
made during the last fifty years without negative
and positive controls. Since he knew I practice
integrative medicine, I understood his challenge to
my work. As I tried to answer his question, I became
distracted by an internal narrative about how
confused scientists, journalists, public health
officials, and politicians have become about science
in healing arts. And how enormous is the price the
society pays for this confusion in avoidable
suffering and costv—over $100 billion every month
out of the total $200 billion spent in the United
States alone.
I am certified in in the fields
of surgery, anatomic pathology, clinical pathology,
environmental medicine, and chelation. I explained
that as far as I know most advances in these fields
were not made by test tube experiments. Charles
Darwin is more often cited in the biology literature
than any other scientist. Yet he never performed any
test tube experiments. Nor did Albert Einstein or
Isaac Newton. Their research did not involve
positive and negative controls.
A surgical pathologist does not
study biopsy tissue samples from three
persons—tissues removed from the patient and two
other persons serving as positive and negative
controls. A clinical pathologist does use controls
for analysing blood samples for glucose, insulin,
and other substances. However, he does not use
"control patients" when the appliese the results to
clinical care issues. The same holds for
practitioners of nutritional medicine and
environmental medicine.The applicable standards in
these fields involve repeated and extended
observations made by astute and diligent clinicians
all over the world, not just practitioners of drug
medicine in the United States who are forced to
essentially follow standards established by thought
leaders on the payroll of drug companies
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