How reliable is science? (The limitations of science)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, April 14, 2012, 16:17 (4604 days ago) @ David Turell

David,&#13;&#10;> Thanks for the explanation. Glad you are back to bug us and inform us. In the cancer research there is cheating. But time to therapy is money and one needs to follow the money to understand the motivations to cheat. By the way, how is your wife doing?-I do owe you guys an update! >_< -Cherri has a faulty MTHFR gene, meaning that she doesn&apos;t metabolize folic acid like most people, and she runs a higher risk than average for blood clots. Her dad&apos;s side of the family has a strong history of dying from blood clots--Great grandpa at 29, her grandparents at 79, 80, and her dad at 59. -Because of that she will be on a folic acid complex the rest of her life. -That caused a great fear of neural tube defects in the baby, and we saw the perinatalogist two wednesdays ago. The baby girl is just fine, 69%ile. -The specialist is exactly what I would want in a doctor: Confident and arrogant. And he took a shot at the OB, which I appreciate because I don&apos;t think she&apos;s handled this well. &quot;An ultrasound is 97% effective at catching neural tube defects.&quot; The subtext was &quot;I&apos;m not sure why you&apos;re here.&quot; -He probed us about an amnio, and my response was &quot;well, the OB said that there would be a 1:300 chance of problem&quot; to which his response was immediately &quot;Well, in my hands that would be more like 1:1600. I&apos;ve done more than she has.&quot; But he advised against one because of the efficacy of the ultrasound. -Everything that *can* be medically handled is now handled. We should have a normal pregnancy, but we do have a higher risk of early delivery. I can live with that. -We go back in about 2 months.

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