10-30-2011, 10:39 PM
This is a wonderful essay, I've emailed it to friends. Thanks for sharing the link.
It could serve as the biggest blow to the falsehoods peddled by Alternative health advocates, fake cures, junk science, some methods honest but misguided, others outright dishonest, and opportunistic (a $3 billion dollar industry) "Alternative" medicine has claimed the lives of countless seekers. Even smart people can be misled, and take risks that are costly. In grave health situations, beliefs in Alternative medicine can be deadly. it's tragic.
A lot of people are upset about it. Jobs regretted his delay, the magical thinking, the denial. I can only hope that it sparks an awareness about the benefits of science-based, reality-based modern medicine. Particularly in matters of life and death. We're fortunate to live in a time when advances in modern medicine can save lives, and help manage complex illnesses. I imagine many of us here are alive today (myself included) because we live in 2011, instead of 1951.
Jobs had a lot of dignity and insight, in those final years. I only wish here were still here to enjoy his family, and friends, in the unfolding 21st century.
Jimmypoo wrote:
Reading that just makes me all the more angry at such a smart man - deciding to delay the very surgery
that would have him here today, instead of gone today. Those around him deserved that far more than
the rest of us, who merely idolize from afar.
It could serve as the biggest blow to the falsehoods peddled by Alternative health advocates, fake cures, junk science, some methods honest but misguided, others outright dishonest, and opportunistic (a $3 billion dollar industry) "Alternative" medicine has claimed the lives of countless seekers. Even smart people can be misled, and take risks that are costly. In grave health situations, beliefs in Alternative medicine can be deadly. it's tragic.
A lot of people are upset about it. Jobs regretted his delay, the magical thinking, the denial. I can only hope that it sparks an awareness about the benefits of science-based, reality-based modern medicine. Particularly in matters of life and death. We're fortunate to live in a time when advances in modern medicine can save lives, and help manage complex illnesses. I imagine many of us here are alive today (myself included) because we live in 2011, instead of 1951.
Jobs had a lot of dignity and insight, in those final years. I only wish here were still here to enjoy his family, and friends, in the unfolding 21st century.