Every so often, I get an email from someone who is seeking advice on some medical issue. For example, I received this short message a few days ago:
I just came across your report on Risperdal, and was wondering what your take is on a 3 year old taking Seroquel? How about a dosage of 900 mg per day? My daughter has been on it for almost one year now. Please give me your honest feedback on this.
My honest opinion is that a 2- or 3-year-old child should not be prescribed any kind of antipsychotic. But that's just an opinion, and, I should stress, a non-professional one. I did not study medicine, so I am not qualified to give advice on such matters. Even if I was qualified, I don't think it would be appropriate to do so. So please do not contact me seeking medical advice, as such requests will be ignored.
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Mo, very possibly the blogger was seeking the opinion of a scientifically cultivated person - nothing more.
Medicine is a subset of science.
Without the absolute free exchange of ideas, there would be no objective science.
Scientific ontology says that there is an objective reality - an act of ontological "faith" according to Plank and Einstein.
Scientific epistemology says that we humans can know that objective reality.
Planck's famous dictum; "By their fruits you will know them."
You should be flattered that the blogger asked you - possibly an exercise in respect.
Posted by: gerald spezio | February 11, 2008 11:36 AM