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SUPPRESSED INVENTIONS & OTHER DISCOVERIESBy JONATHAN EISENAVERY PUBLISHING GROUPCopyright © 1999 Jonathan Eisen. All rights reserved.ISBN: 0-89529-809-0Chapter One Does Medicine Have a Bad Attitude? James P. Carter "... And besides, looking through those spectacles gives me a headache." Professor Cesare Cremonini in 1610, explaining why he would not look through Galileo's telescope at the moons of Jupiter.ARROGANT IGNORANCEThe sort of excuse above has delayed medical discoveries for decades,even half-centuries. Canadian nutritionist Dr. David Rowland describesthis repression of medical innovation as a bad attitude which he termed"arrogant ignorance." This negative attitude toward many great discoveriesrepresents a tremendous ego threat. Today such negativity is compoundedwith the industrialization of medicine, which has brought on that"greed is good (for me)" philosophy expressed in the recent movie WallStreet. Segments of the medical profession take what they want when theycan get it. Arrogant ignorance has followed science and medicine throughout history.Beginning with the learned colleagues of Galileo who refused

Author

Jonathan Eisen

Publisher

Avery Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780895298096

Subjects

Science, History, Engineering

Rating

4.7 / 5 (98 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14