I know that most people like to poke fun at the people that search Google for the symptoms of their current health situations. In many cases, I see people that are “health professionals”, “scientists”, or “highly educated” of some variety, using this technique to dismiss either the efforts of the person with the symptoms or investigating their symptoms or to appeal to their own authority as a licensed “medical professional”, “scientist” or as “highly educated”.
What strikes me as odd about this situation is that most these people “poking fun” do not recognize that these individuals are scouring the internet, books, movies and other sources for answers to questions, because they are not receiving answers from their “health professionals” or “scientists” or “highly educated” vendors. I understand that we all lack the time to educate our clients or customers as too why our ideas have merit, and we all have legitimate excuses like paperwork, priorities, etc. But, poking fun at these people is rarely the answer. There is some benefit in recognizing the humor in situations, but calling people names, calling them uneducated, calling them conspiracy theorists, only
highlights our inability to properly communicate ideas in a meaningful way or our inability to recognize that Google and other internet-based platforms present tremendous opportunities and platforms to communicate our ideas or investigate our own new thoughts or ideas. An idea simply does not have merit solely based on the basis that it was printed in a book or a vetted consensus-based trade journal. The irony of the situation of the people “poking fun” is that they usually are just demonstrating their own inability to accept new ideas, new frontiers of thought and accept the possibility that they have their own internal weaknesses or struggles. They need to learn to talk and listen to people instead of talking down to them or talking around them.
But, I don’t expect this situation to change either. People have used their “positions of authority” to stop the honest debate of ideas since the beginning of time.
Until then, I’m going to continue to rub in my Lavender essential oil because it relaxes me and makes me feel better (with no scientific merit), I’m going to eat my bacon because I like how it makes me feel and how it tastes (regardless as too what scientific “consensus” says), I’ll continue taking my vitamins and supplements (wasting my money with no scientific basis), and I’ll continue to investigate ideas on the internet using Google and Duck Duck Go (even though it isn’t the printed word). I’ll probably post my symptoms in some safe place on Facebook, I’ll probably ask for thoughts and prayers, I’ll probably still Google and I’ll probably try a specific mix or mixes of essential oils.
And, you’ll probably continue to poke fun at people like me…(which is perfectly fine by me) You’ll probably continue to poke fun at my lack of scientific basis for anything that I do, and that’s okay too.
And sadly, we will never learn.
But, in any case, know that I still wish you well and nothing but the best…
