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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geocacher" data-source="post: 376620" data-attributes="member: 32611">There's a difference between denial and reality... the denial that refuses to accept fact does the most damage because it prevent real research from replacing ignorance.  Those interested in reality recognise and take in the credible information available and adjust their ideas to accomodate it.It's about time that the medical profession did just that... I have very interesting conversations with my GP backed up by fact from reliable sources such as the Mayo Clinic, and the endocrinology department of the local hospital, about what the best treatments are for me.  His specialty is clearly not diabetes.  Fact wins, and as a result my HbA1C is consistently low, and I was able to get treatment long before I had any symptons of diabetes, and I've been able to get a meter and test strips when many are denied, and with any luck I'll add years to my life that my T2 relatives didn't get to have in their short lives.  Being well informed is always useful.It's a shame that not all of us are educated enough to recognise credible sources of information and to understand the results of well constructed studies that can be replicated consistently and tell of facts found through research conducted at reputable organisations by recognised professionals.  Maybe if we were better at that we wouldn't have to deal with an NHS that gives poor treatment or denies medication and supplies to diabetics.I am aware of the MMR scare and that Andrew Wakefield was struck off for falsifying research.  It's just a shame it took so long before anyone believed the real studies that proved his research to be false. And it is unfortunately a myth still perpetuated by the amazing Dr. Oz, quack extraordinaire.  And one has but to read the infamous 'Natural News' to understand how gullible the population is to miracle cures and false research.  Sad but true, and autistic children in America are often forced to undergo pointless and dangerous treatments like chelation therapy simply because some quack claims it cures autism.  Children have died from such 'treatments'.However, not all research is false and not all findings are myth. It is wrong, and will always be wrong, to dispell real research that you simply don't understand when it could be the basis of prevention or cure.Think about it.</blockquote>

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