You know, I think there's a confluence between so-called "functional medicine" and this techno-utopian vision of constant testing. 1/ https://twitter.com/BenMazer/status/1037297824474574854 …
If you look at functional medicine in practice, it's basically a shotgun approach to medicine. Functional medicine docs make it up as they go along and throw a whole bunch of things at the wall to see what sticks. 11/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-in-practice/ …
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This brings me back to Theranos. The ethic is the same as functional medicine. It's a belief that testing as many things as possible will reveal the "biochemical individuality" of the patient and allow for "individualized treatment." 12/
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If Theranos could have actually delivered a product, functional medicine docs would have loved it and likely been some of Theranos' most enthusiastic customers. 13/
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Functional medicine docs also share with Silicon Valley techoprophets a touchingly naive faith in technology as a solution to every problem. Functional medicine docs share this faith, for example... 14/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/09/05/robin-berzin-functional-medicine-concierge/ …
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I foresee a confluence between Silicon Valley and quacks, and it likely will be functional medicine quackery leading the way. 15/15
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