FemmeTheory :
I'm irreligious myself but the lesson history seems to teach us is that science is not completely trustworthy either. In the past, science standardized many treatments and medicines that we now know to be harmful or illegal. For example, heroin was prescribed to children, doctors used to administer cocaine and toxic mercury-based medicines, and depression was treated by surgically removing parts of the brain. Science has had such a harmful, predatory, and monstrous history that, in my view, science should not be trusted at all. It should not be understood as a framework for truth. We should not blindly trust science because, just as science and governments have given us some excellent medicines, they have also given us harmful ones. Patients’ voices were often ignored, and they were subjected to serious harm. The patients who were given treatments involving heroin, cocaine, or brain surgery often did not provide genuinely informed consent either; their consent was manipulated or obtained under unethical circumstances. This was deeply unethical.
2026-08-18 06:59:13