For the most part Pooka I do agree with you that experts in their field opinions certainly count as being more important than the opinions of others.
But what I want to say is that you treat everything as though its simply black and white, and although that line of thinking sometimes has its merits, other times it doesn't.
Your forgetting that not everything about scoliosis is known to the experts, (which means that even the experts aren't really experts - allthough they probably know more than all of us) which means there's a grey area in between.
Even colleagues at the top of their field wont necessarily agree on everything all the time.
Until everything in scoliosis in black and white and known, you should maybe give some more consideration for that grey area.
Pooka said >>
We'll for me the facts are this:
For as much knowledge that the experts do know about scoliosis, there's probably just as much they don't know.
For all the billions of dollars spent treating scoliosis I'm sure theres some kind of disparity in the amount of money being spent looking at trying to find out the stuff they don't know.
And furthermore those efforts of financial investment to push research forward are in some ways biased to do what works better for companies financially rather than investigating things that need to be investigated for the benefit of patients.
If I own a billion dollar spine implant company my motives for investment in research are going to be looking towards things that create profitability to my company - first and foremost.
So maybe theres a whole heap of other scoliosis stuff than needs financial investment to be investigated adequetely.
It isn't invested in those areas because it's not profitable to do so.
Where's that money going to come from?
Evidence - Well were only going to get out what we put in.
Things with scoliosis aren't all black and white, although it might be easier if it was.
You need to keep things in the right context.
Sometimes you need to deal with each issue or situation on its own merits rather than try to find a one-size fits all approach to everything being black and white.
But sometimes too, I have to agree that certain things really are just black and white.
Thats what I think.
But what I want to say is that you treat everything as though its simply black and white, and although that line of thinking sometimes has its merits, other times it doesn't.
Your forgetting that not everything about scoliosis is known to the experts, (which means that even the experts aren't really experts - allthough they probably know more than all of us) which means there's a grey area in between.
Even colleagues at the top of their field wont necessarily agree on everything all the time.
Until everything in scoliosis in black and white and known, you should maybe give some more consideration for that grey area.
Pooka said >>
The facts are my only authority. Evidence is the only thing that matters.
For as much knowledge that the experts do know about scoliosis, there's probably just as much they don't know.
For all the billions of dollars spent treating scoliosis I'm sure theres some kind of disparity in the amount of money being spent looking at trying to find out the stuff they don't know.
And furthermore those efforts of financial investment to push research forward are in some ways biased to do what works better for companies financially rather than investigating things that need to be investigated for the benefit of patients.
If I own a billion dollar spine implant company my motives for investment in research are going to be looking towards things that create profitability to my company - first and foremost.
So maybe theres a whole heap of other scoliosis stuff than needs financial investment to be investigated adequetely.
It isn't invested in those areas because it's not profitable to do so.
Where's that money going to come from?
Evidence - Well were only going to get out what we put in.
Things with scoliosis aren't all black and white, although it might be easier if it was.
You need to keep things in the right context.
Sometimes you need to deal with each issue or situation on its own merits rather than try to find a one-size fits all approach to everything being black and white.
But sometimes too, I have to agree that certain things really are just black and white.
Thats what I think.
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