Show Me The Data

Having Multiple Sclerosis myself, I learned to think extremely-critically about common flaws in human-thinking that can lead to grave-misunderstandings among the general population.

Most obviously, watching loved-ones go from being active, contributing members of the human-race to barely-functioning persons is (I imagine) emotionally-disheartening beyond practically ANYTHING those people ever imagined.

Consequently, M.S. is high on the list of diseases I consider susceptible to charlatanism, cultism, and just plain-uncritical thinking.

The trouble begins with the common mis-perception that 21st-Century medicine is anywhere near fully-understanding the human-body and -brain.

Sorry to say...it isn't.

Yeah, sure, great-strides have been made towards understanding...but let me assure the reader that that's not quite enough...to be monkeying-around with untested or ill-tested treatments...especially ones that put either body or brain at risk of WORSE (known) ailments.

M.S. is a devastating disease, but not devastating enough to risk the spark-of-life remaining on possible (albeit vaguely-believable) cures.

M.S. is an incredibly complex disease (at least in terms of our existing medical/immunological/neurological knowledge)--and the relative rarity of it among the human population makes it a strong-candidate for delusional- or wishful-analysis...especially by minds not familiar with the research that has already been done...since the mid-/late-19th Century.

I thought at-first that M.S. might have been a byproduct of the Industrial-Revolution, but then I realized later that too was fraught with logical-errors enough to make it a relatively-useless assertion.

I realized that, no matter how it started, M.S. might never be cured.

Sounds hopeless to unlookers...but this attitude allows me to accept the awful truth that I've had to face for the last seven years.

--mattergy