There is an article about the exciting “new” research in MS in the latest issue of the NMSS’s Momentum magazine. Medical science has just “discovered” that fat plays a role in MS symptom formation. “Studying these fat molecules may lead to a lean, mean strategy for tackling MS” the article states.
Where have they been for the last 50 plus years? The diet approach proponents have known about the role of fat since the 1950s. Dr. Roy Swank spent his whole career studying the role of fats and oils in MS. Here is their answer: “until recently, technology to facilitate their study did not exist. But now, researchers are breaking through.”
Of course, instead of the practical, no cost, no risk solution of having people limit intake of saturated fat, medicine is testing the statins. These drugs have risks.
Medicine is really limited by their reductionist model of inductive reasoning, single variable-double blind research and treatments consisting of either drugs or surgery. The diet evolved through trial and error, deductive reasoning, logic, empirical results and inference, all valid means of acquiring knowledge.