On November 26th, the Scientific American published a wonderfully insightful piece by Jennifer Block, entitled, Doctors are Not Gods, wherein she criticized the elitist, and increasingly authoritarian, attitude of the healthcare profession, and the hatred that profession has for any non-credentialed promoter of healthcare at odds with their directives.
Well, the cowards at Scientific American quickly removed the piece, because it is not there anymore. In its place is the boilerplate, “The post that originally appeared here has been removed because we’ve determined that it doesn’t meet our editorial standards.”
Good thing it’s been archived then, and can be READ HERE.
I’d say that if a piece of writing is deemed dangerous or subversive enough for Scientific American to censor it, it deserves to be read in its entirety. But her eloquent take-down of oversensitive, over-credentialed Jan Gunter alone is worth it.
EDIT: Block mentions that Jan Gunter occasionally refers to Gwyneth Paltrow’s company, Goop, as part of some insidious “health industrial complex” that is taking advantage of gullible customers. Gunter apparently doesn’t understand to what “-industrial complex” refers. A purely private company operating in an open market, free of government regulation and privilege, isn’t deserving of the pejorative. What does deserve the label of “health industrial complex” is the hyper-regulated, guilded, privileged industry that Gunter is a part of. The medical establishment does not operate in an environment that is anywhere near a market. It is rife with monopolistic rigging and corruption. It exists in its present corrupt state only due to the privileges afforded to it by the government. Remove those privileges and the whole thing will dissipate.
