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Originally Posted by Villages PL
I would have explained it sooner if I had been given the chance. The statistics in his book don't necessarily disagree with CDC statistics, as far as I can tell.
As far as profit: Those who head the CDC probably make far more money than Gary Null. Should we discredit CDC doctors for making a lot of money ? "Center for Disease Control" is an impressive title too. So what?
Are you against "catchy" titles? If you write a really good book and nobody reads it because it has a dull title, what good it that? It wouldn't be very smart of the authors if they go through a lot of trouble and no one buys the book.
Is a book written for profit a bad thing necessarily? And in this case they have to split the money between 4 doctors. How about our personal physicians. Don't they make a profit off of every office visit? Is that bad?
Can we believe them when they say we need to come back for a follow-up exam?
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The CDC is a non-profit government agency. Nobody there is personally profiting by what they say or do, and you can't compare the doctors that work there at all to a doctor or doctors writing books to be sold for profit.
I'm leery of any books that these so-called experts write for profit, catchy title or dull title. Or the ones that make the talk-show rounds. Or the ones that ARE the talk shows. The people that hold credibility for me are the ones doing the research and publishing in the trusted medical journals.
My doctors have never once said to me, "Go to the library and read this book by Dr. So-and-so."