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You Have No Constitutional Right To Your Own Science

Does An American Have Freedom Of Science?

  • I think my religion explains the world and I have no use for science

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This thread is an excellent convo, BTW. Thanks to all who've posted to it!

Carry on.
 
That's why antibiotics are pretty much useless against viruses and viral infections.

Ya, I know -- and I think I figured that out in time to spare my kid from antibiotic resistance.

WHY do MDs do that, prescribe an antibiotic when the patient doesn't have a bacterial infection?
 
A NSFW video about a doctor who refuses a harmful drug to a patient who "demands" it out of ignorance:



LOL....I am a PITA patient.

"I know you want me to be happy, doctor."
 
Ya, I know -- and I think I figured that out in time to spare my kid from antibiotic resistance.

WHY do MDs do that, prescribe an antibiotic when the patient doesn't have a bacterial infection?

I don't know. If a doctor knows the patient has a viral infection, the doctor should know that antibiotics are useless, and should instead prescribe antiviral medicine.

Another interesting tidbit about antibiotics: whenever you are prescribed antibiotics, it is important to make sure you take all of the antibiotics, even if you start feeling better and no longer feel sick. People have a tendency to stop taking the antibiotics once they feel better. This is not good as it makes antibiotic resistance more likely.
 
Scientists do not consider viruses to be alive?

NO Viruses are the wierd ones of the natural world. They have no nucleus and no organelles just chemical transformation and transportation. But variety is the spice of life. Yes?
 
Ya, I know -- and I think I figured that out in time to spare my kid from antibiotic resistance.

WHY do MDs do that, prescribe an antibiotic when the patient doesn't have a bacterial infection?

You don't really want to know the answer to that question do you?
 
NO Viruses are the wierd ones of the natural world. They have no nucleus and no organelles just chemical transformation and transportation. But variety is the spice of life. Yes?

But there are "dead" viruses, correct?

Why isn't it logical to infer from this that there must also be "live" ones?
 
But there are "dead" viruses, correct?

Why isn't it logical to infer from this that there must also be "live" ones?

Yes viruses can "die" and that is the objective of viral medicines to "kill" them. All it means for a virus to be dead is that it has stopped its biochemical processes. Its similar to saying a dead battery.
 
Yes viruses can "die" and that is the objective of viral medicines to "kill" them. All it means for a virus to be dead is that it has stopped its biochemical processes. Its similar to saying a dead battery.

Got it.

Thanks!
 
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