The point is that it can be both. The message shouldn't be that all modern tech and medicine is bullshit - it clearly isn't. It's that the average person is no different than someone who followed a witch doctor 5k years ago.
There are huge elements of religion caught up in it all. You will never be able to logically show a normal person their doctor is wrong, because they BELIEVE, not because they're logical and reviewed the literature.
You could probably argue it's the politicization of medicine and the modern structure of authority (FDA, WHO, etc) that is the real issue. No one is trying to say science doesn't exist. He's saying The Science is a religion.
In medicine you are required to have confidence in your doctors ability to a degree. It can't be expected that common folk be experts on cancer, organ transplants, etc., before making a decision on their health. Specialization requires a degree of confidence in the specialist. Otherwise we would have to do and know everything ourselves. It's not religion or ritual. it's either trust or distrust in the medical system through the experiences you've had with it. When you order your favorite steak a restaurant, you trust its going to be great like it usually is. That doesn't require you to know where the beef was procured, how it was stored, what seasoning was used, what temp it was cooked at etc. It's just trust in the system through experience.
You're entitled to your opinion on medical practice, as am I, but trust is not something that should be blindly given just because someone is credentialed in a particular field. Well credentialed doctors and scientists have made grave mistakes based on their understanding of science at the time. Were these mistakes purposeful and nefarious, no. They were mistakes because science is not something you can fully understand because it is too vast a subject to know that you have all the right answers. Given that, trust is really only faith when applied towards an unknown like medicine. Don't conflate the two as you will only find that trust is elusive but faith is easily found. Have faith that you may be healed or cured but don't trust that you absolutely will be healed or cured. Always expect at least one outcome that will not be favorable to you and a doctor cannot explain or fix because it happens everyday to someone.
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