People thought highly of them because for about half your examples, that was them trying to do something with shit that worked for reasons they didn't understand but it vaguely did something positive.
Maggots and leeches are still used today because, while disgusting to look at, it does work for its intended purpose.
I agree with a lot of what you are getting at, but I can't begrudge people centuries ago for simply being ignorant of shit they couldn't possibly understand like germs and illnesses but still trying to do something. Because the alternative usually was just to sit down and die anyway.
I don’t fault them for not knowing any better, that’s a good point actually.
It’s the fucking God complex they all have, the fact that they did all of those terrible things NOT knowing whether any of it actually worked but believing so because that’s what the scientific consensus of the day told them. It mirrors what’s happening today with the jabs. It’s one thing to be ignorant, but to also wield that ignorance like some god given authority and actually put people’s lives in jeopardy (like this poor child’s) is abhorrent.
I guess I shouldn’t paint everyone with the same brush because there are CERTAINLY good people like Malone, McCullough and others who put their necks on the chopping block.
I just have an unshakable distrust of the entire Industry now that I don’t think is ever gonna go away
I don't fault you for that, I feel much the same for many of them both today and in the past century.
I just also know that much of the stuff that looks primitive, evil, and horrifying to us now was basically the only way we could progress at all at the time and for many people the only "cure" they could manage even if it was just placebo doing its thing.
Though personally, I've had mostly on the level interactions with most actual medical doctors (instead of just doctorate doctors) and the God Complexes are all the nurses that surround them acting like they are personally saving the world each day as they wipe shit out of an old man's leg hairs.
People thought highly of them because for about half your examples, that was them trying to do something with shit that worked for reasons they didn't understand but it vaguely did something positive.
Maggots and leeches are still used today because, while disgusting to look at, it does work for its intended purpose.
I agree with a lot of what you are getting at, but I can't begrudge people centuries ago for simply being ignorant of shit they couldn't possibly understand like germs and illnesses but still trying to do something. Because the alternative usually was just to sit down and die anyway.
I don’t fault them for not knowing any better, that’s a good point actually.
It’s the fucking God complex they all have, the fact that they did all of those terrible things NOT knowing whether any of it actually worked but believing so because that’s what the scientific consensus of the day told them. It mirrors what’s happening today with the jabs. It’s one thing to be ignorant, but to also wield that ignorance like some god given authority and actually put people’s lives in jeopardy (like this poor child’s) is abhorrent.
I guess I shouldn’t paint everyone with the same brush because there are CERTAINLY good people like Malone, McCullough and others who put their necks on the chopping block.
I just have an unshakable distrust of the entire Industry now that I don’t think is ever gonna go away
I don't fault you for that, I feel much the same for many of them both today and in the past century.
I just also know that much of the stuff that looks primitive, evil, and horrifying to us now was basically the only way we could progress at all at the time and for many people the only "cure" they could manage even if it was just placebo doing its thing.
Though personally, I've had mostly on the level interactions with most actual medical doctors (instead of just doctorate doctors) and the God Complexes are all the nurses that surround them acting like they are personally saving the world each day as they wipe shit out of an old man's leg hairs.