Countrygirl
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This is an interesting little snippet I have just come across. Speaks volumes!
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It angers me. I like to help people, he likes to hurt them. Very cruel.I don't think there is much doubt about that @keenly
Like Ted Bundy?I never heard about this before. It just shows that someone who is charismatic and witty can totally fool people.
This is an interesting little snippet I have just come across. Speaks volumes!
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Was this a tweet and do you have a link by any chance @Countrygirl ?
He is evil
I never heard about this before. It just shows that someone who is charismatic and witty can totally fool people.
I think it's important to remember that the culture of the medical profession predates modern science and is not rooted therein. From what I've heard from those teaching medical students it sounds like at least half the people who study medicine are doing so in pursuit of the privilege that comes with being a medical doctor, and have no personal interest in the safety and welfare of others. In my experience more doctors want to be valued for their "opinion" than want to collect data or practice good healthcare. Wessely clearly understands the culture of the medical profession and knows how to exploit it.Blinkered zealotry and ignorance of a great many doctors has killed huge numbers since the 1880s despite "science".
When I feel like this about him I always find that it helps pronounce the name accurately. Turn the W into a V and sound that e before the l. Never fails.
Reminds me of a talk I once attended where an evaluation specialist had reviewed the outcomes of psychiatric intervention throughout a region on a population-wide basis. He summed up his findings thus:
1. Psychiatry operates on fashion, not evidence.
2. On a population level there is no evidence that psychiatric intervention is of any benefit.
Clearly our speaker wasn't as well connected as Wessely given that the psychiatric profession wasn't shut down the following day.
I think it's important to remember that the culture of the medical profession predates modern science and is not rooted therein. From what I've heard from those teaching medical students it sounds like at least half the people who study medicine are doing so in pursuit of the privilege that comes with being a medical doctor, and have no personal interest in the safety and welfare of others. In my experience more doctors want to be valued for their "opinion" than want to collect data or practice good healthcare. Wessely clearly understands the culture of the medical profession and knows how to exploit it.
In case you're wondering why Byron Hyde is calling bovine faeces here instead of laughing along with the rest of his profession, before studying medicine Hyde had a prior career as a geotechnician, a field in which it is not possible to ignore/dismiss/ridicule reality and remain employed.