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171 | Ross Douthat: The Limits of Modern Medicine in a Post-COVID World

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery, returns to The Realignment to discuss his struggle with Lyme disease, the push and pull between what the medical establishment does and doesn’t know, and what it all means for COVID era debates about misinformation/censorship, treatment options, and alternative care. Support The Realignment and purchase Ross Douthat’s new book: The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery at The Realignment’s Bookshop Storefront: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

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0:00.0

Marcheron Saga here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

0:09.4

The crucial thing here is that there has to be a way to find a balance,

0:14.7

where you have to be able to simultaneously say,

0:18.3

the medical system can get things wrong, and people on the fringe can get things right,

0:23.0

and you have to be always open to that possibility,

0:25.8

without assuming, without sort of flipping the script, which I think is the mistake that

0:31.4

a lot of people in what you might call populous medicine make,

0:34.9

and say, oh, if the establishment is wrong about this one thing,

0:38.3

I'm going to assume that they're wrong about everything, right?

0:41.5

Because, in fact, you know, the basic discoveries of modern medicines from antibiotics,

0:48.0

which were the main thing that I took.

0:50.0

I did a lot of stranger things, but antibiotics were the core of my treatment,

0:53.7

to vaccines, to, you know, chemotherapy for cancer.

0:58.0

Like, there are core things the medical system does right,

1:01.3

that I think need to be defended and respected.

1:06.3

Even as you need to recognize all the places where medical consensus can try.

1:11.5

And that's a really hard balance to strike.

1:24.0

Hello, everyone.

1:25.0

Good morning.

1:26.0

Happy Thursday.

1:27.0

We have another great show for you.

1:28.6

We have Ross Douthit back for what I believe is his fourth appearance on the realignment.

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