When it comes to belief systems (especially medicine) everybody (and I mean everybody) starts with certain presuppositions. What are presuppositions?

Jack McElroy is with Jenna Kleiser.September 18 at 7:33 AM  · 

WHAT YOU BELIEVE DETERMINES WHERE YOU’LL END UP

When it comes to belief systems (especially medicine) everybody (and I mean everybody) starts with certain presuppositions. What are presuppositions? They’re things about the world that you start off supposing are true. whose truth you assume is taken for granted by everyone else. Presuppositions are filters. They’ve been placed in you by your parents, your friends, the educational system (sometimes referred to as the public fool system) and especially media. But more accurately the vested interests i.e. the people who control the messages delivered by media. No matter who you talk to, no matter how smart they are, no matter how well-educated or not they are, the presuppositions are deeply entrenched. They are programmed into us. That’s why it’s so hard for people to change. Even upon presentation of new material. The result is that most people end up filtering out anything (and everything) that doesn’t fit with their programmed model of reality. One of the biggest presuppositions in the medical field is the germ theory of disease causation. i.e. that germs are the prima facie cause of disease. After all, certain germs are usually (although not always) found in certain diseases. As I’ve pointed out in other posts, the presupposition that germs CAUSE disease is a theory that not all subscribe to because upon further examination, the evidence doesn’t support.