A short conversational video (YouTube) featuring Robert Whitfield MD and others debating why discussions get shut down in the medical community. In this segment Whitfield and others attribute shutdowns primarily to money and lobbying (pharma profits, food industry incentives), with a contributing role for professional ego and resistance to being wrong; Whitfield also references rigorous surgical training and a culture of continual self-scrutiny as motivating factors.
But my point is, is. And I know you've also faced this. Why are so many conversations shut down so hard in the medical community?
Money and politics. Like, there's money and everything, right? The pharma industry keeps you on drugs. They make money. The food industry is terrible. They keep you sick from eating bad food. And then from my perspective, if you're, you know, trying to solve a problem, I don't know how many people are that curious to solve a problem. I never like being wrong. I always want to know the best thing I can do for somebody. And so I'm not very satisfied with anything. I don't spend a lot of time patting myself on the back, ever. I was trained by phenomenal people, and they were hard, hard mentors, but they were some of the best people that walked the face of the earth that did surgery, plastic surgery, general surgery. So, I mean, that's why I do what I do. They would have never been satisf with this weak effort to understand this problem. So we just keep pushing and try to understand it, but it's pure money.
It's lobbying money.
I think it's a little sprinkle of ego, too. A little bit. I think it's all money, and then there's a sprinkle of ego of the my way is the way, and I'm unwilling to look at the way that I'm doing it and question myself.
Well, I think this is why people get so frustrated and people are so skeptical, is because someone like yourself, who has a lot more information than the general public when it comes to topics like this, there's a real skepticism and a pushback happening, and they call it conspiracy theorists, but it's really just people knowing that people like yourself face questions and topics and issues being shut down purely because of lobbying and money and regulations that shouldn't necessarily be there.
Yeah, I'm sure after this comes out, I'll get a letter from somebody or an email accusing me of some ethics violation. That's okay. So we have studies in place to look at EEG data for brain fog.
