A patient is rapidly dying of an overwhelming massive bacterial infection in a big city hospital.
All the doctors (along with the patient and their family) have only two choices of what to inject (and only a few hours to do so) if they hope to save the patient.
Door A is a relatively new man-made chemical produced in a former paint factory.
It must be given in massive doses and it has frequent serious side effects and it only slows the rate of reproduction of the few bacteria that it does affect.
Door B is an all-natural anti-bacterial agent that has been around for millions of years, needs only tiny amounts to be effective , is completely non-toxic and kills a wide variety of bacteria stone cold.
Which medicine would tend to be picked up and used based on the limited amount of information I have given ?
In 1942 ?
In 2012 ?
In 1942, at the height of the Age of Modernity, 99.999% of everyone , from the patient's mom to the leading doctors, went through Door A. They also preferred factory made white bread.
In 2012, most of us would prefer Door B --- along with whole wheat bread made in the local bakery.
Door A was a patented sulfa drug , the pride of the chemists' profession and the source of big profits for Big Pharma.
Door B was crude natural ,public domain,penicillin, made for free in the hospital's lab by Doctor Martin Henry Dawson.
We who are alive today can't begin to account for the mental state of the middle aged adults from 75 years ago.
And they are no longer around to help us explain an age that among many other strange things, generally much preferred to get its vitamin C from a chemical pill rather than from a refreshing glass of OJ.
This makes it all the harder to explain the resistance to using natural penicillin that delayed its life-saving use for 15 wasted years ; makes it all the harder to explain why the middle aged Dawson was so very different from his fellow adults of 75 years ago....
All the doctors (along with the patient and their family) have only two choices of what to inject (and only a few hours to do so) if they hope to save the patient.
Door A is a relatively new man-made chemical produced in a former paint factory.
It must be given in massive doses and it has frequent serious side effects and it only slows the rate of reproduction of the few bacteria that it does affect.
Door B is an all-natural anti-bacterial agent that has been around for millions of years, needs only tiny amounts to be effective , is completely non-toxic and kills a wide variety of bacteria stone cold.
Which medicine would tend to be picked up and used based on the limited amount of information I have given ?
In 1942 ?
In 2012 ?
In 1942, at the height of the Age of Modernity, 99.999% of everyone , from the patient's mom to the leading doctors, went through Door A. They also preferred factory made white bread.
In 2012, most of us would prefer Door B --- along with whole wheat bread made in the local bakery.
Door A was a patented sulfa drug , the pride of the chemists' profession and the source of big profits for Big Pharma.
Door B was crude natural ,public domain,penicillin, made for free in the hospital's lab by Doctor Martin Henry Dawson.
We who are alive today can't begin to account for the mental state of the middle aged adults from 75 years ago.
And they are no longer around to help us explain an age that among many other strange things, generally much preferred to get its vitamin C from a chemical pill rather than from a refreshing glass of OJ.
This makes it all the harder to explain the resistance to using natural penicillin that delayed its life-saving use for 15 wasted years ; makes it all the harder to explain why the middle aged Dawson was so very different from his fellow adults of 75 years ago....
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