The Natural Repertory of Prof. William Nelson

PROBLEMS WITH CLINICAL TRIALS
� Reductionism. Reducing the complex patient to simple
measurements. This makes attained information suspect and
weak. Medicine becomes cold, impersonal, and statistical.
Compassion cannot be reflected by statistics.
� Never long enough. Effects of a synthetic medication can result in
genetic damage generations later.
� Overconfidence and misinterpretation of the Null hypothesis. If a
study of natural vs. synthetic vitamins shows no difference in
results, it does not occur to researchers that they or their ability to
measure could be in error.
� Most always benefits the one who can afford to fund the study.
Experimenter effect.
� Trials will always reward and reinforce the philosophy of those
performing them. Allopathy is preferred; homeopathy and
naturopathy are ignored.
� Quantity does not dispel quantity. Publish or perish rule pushes
paper out of educational institutions which just perpetuates the
allopathic delusion.
� Inability to accept the truth that allopathy is hurting patients in
vast numbers. Iatrogenic malpractice suits resulting from synthetic
drugs top fifteen billion dollars a year. We must realize that our
clinical trial process is a failure, and replace it.
These errors of reductionism result in errors of decision-making within
the medical establishment. As we take these individuals with rampant,
variant problems, different conditions of liver function, kidney function,
skin conditions, ethnic backgrounds, and the like, we then take these
populations and reduce them to one type of criteria. We reduce the
complexity of their human diversity to a simple variable of blood
pressure, hormone level in the blood, range of motion, or whatever type
of statistical measurement technique we use.
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