[LINK] Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer?

From Quora:

"Now Mr. Jobs always was a free thinker, a strong believer in spirituality, a vegetarian and a known skeptic of conventional medicine. He chose to reject conventional medicine altogether. He's not alone in that. We come across many people like this and we all know someone in our midst that uses homeopathy or has this known fear of anything "chemical" (to those I always say that everything is chemical, if you think dihydrogen oxide sounds scary you should stop drinking water). Individual freedom of thought and choice is a cornerstone of our modern society and the medical world makes no exception."

From Quora:

"Now Mr. Jobs always was a free thinker, a strong believer in spirituality, a vegetarian and a known skeptic of conventional medicine. He chose to reject conventional medicine altogether. He's not alone in that. We come across many people like this and we all know someone in our midst that uses homeopathy or has this known fear of anything "chemical" (to those I always say that everything is chemical, if you think dihydrogen oxide sounds scary you should stop drinking water). Individual freedom of thought and choice is a cornerstone of our modern society and the medical world makes no exception."

Which is to say that Alternative Medicine that works will be a decade or two ahead of Medicine. If you don't have a problem with being a decade or two behind the best treatments, or never getting a treatment because no one has an interest in spending a billion dollars to "prove" it works, limiting yourself to Medicine is not a problem.

It doesn't take anywhere near a billion dollars to test a new medicine, and if there were a good reason for singling it out as worthy of serious investigation, drug companies would probably already be on it.

"Alternative medicine" mostly falls into two categories; procedures which would have to work by mystical mechanisms which our current scientific understanding suggests almost certainly cannot work, which mostly haven't been tested, and traditional folk remedies which could work by the same sorts of mechanisms as ordinary medicine. Most of the ... (read more)

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Sure, some forms of alt med might potentially fall into that category. But the vast majority will just be wrong and will often contradict basic laws of physics. Homeopathy is a good example of this.

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[LINK] Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer?

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