Forgotten Scientific Miracles

Abstract

Why do we in the US spend more money on healthcare than anyone else in the world but keep getting sicker, fatter, and more susceptible to healthcare shocks such as the covid-19 pandemic than anyone else? What is the solution to this problem? In this paper, I argue that three causation-correlation errors that we made in the vetting and gatekeeping of scientific research findings—as the findings flowed down the healthcare hierarchy from scientists to doctors and their patients—landed us in the healthcare quagmire. By leveraging the wisdom and power of crowds, we can use three strategies–– low-carb, high-dose micronutrients, and cause-based treatments strategies––to obtain superior solutions to the problem at little or no cost. These strategies are disruptive to the business models of the status quo healthcare players who have presided over the quagmire and profited from it. Resistance from these status quo healthcare players can be expected.