There is more to healing than application of scientific knowledge?

Question

What do you think?

Answer 1

Healing has more to do with the miracle of life than scientific knowledge.  You can take that scientific knowledge and put it in books or CDs or tapes.  But to see healing happen is amazing nonetheless.

How many PhDs, engineers, and doctors do you see who still get sick and die? Or get addicted?  Or get mentally imbalanced somehow, committing acts no sane person would do?

Answer 2

I think that anything in todays world can be linked to science. But , also depends on what type of healings your talking about,.

Answer 3

I think scientific knowledge plays a big part. Thats the kind of person I am. I like things to be proven. And I would not recommend anything (I am a dietitian) that was not proven

Sometimes we know something works, but we don't know how. Thats ok. Epidemiological and RCT's can prove this. But it is still proven to work in some way. We don't know that much about the pathology of many cancers, but we have enough info to make good guesses,

For things that we have no defined mechanism of action, and no proof it works than I don't think there is a place for this in healing. It takes advantage of desperate people who are sick.

Science cant cure everything, but it is the best we have. I would not trust anyone who did not have a solid scientific knowledge to heal me.

Answer 4

that's what all uneducated people who can't bothered learning how things really work say

Answer 5

It is the uneducated people who only believe in what science can explain. The true scientist knows that there are many mysterys that have yet to be explained. They are seeking to explain them.

The truly educated people also know that science is proving more and more each day of the things that many of us knew to be true before science was able to prove or explain.

The body, mind and spirit link has been scientifically proven to exist in healing for many years. Although science may not yet be able to fully explain how it works (although some of it is being explained through brain science and quantum physics) science has proven that it works.

There is definitely more to healing than applying scentific knowledge. But science is catching up.

Answer 6

I think healing is a mind, body, and spirit process along with scientific knowledge.

Answer 7

Absolutely

I know this will shock those who routinely report/slag/thumbs down my answers here in Altie land.

Medicine has always been a mix of the art of people management, and the application of the best applied science.

Reassuring the worried well is a significant part of what we do...that is the art.  

We know from scientific study of the mind/body connection....that is how the placebo effect works after all.  I make use of it whenever I can.

The Alties use it exclusively, which is why their "success" is essentially with people who have short term minor illnesses, or psychosomatic problems, not the truly unwell.

The placebo effect can't cure cancer, or pneumonia, or heart disease.  That's where you need actual science.