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Threats to Humane Medicine

The 1995 annual Trinity Week Symposium at Trinity College, Dublin, was dedicated to one of Trinity’s most distinguished medical teachers and scholars, Petr Skrabanekl, who died tragically early in June 1994. The deep humanity and courtesy of Skrabanek’s astute mentor, friend and scientific collaborator, James McCormick, encompassed the whole day-long symposium. It is not many university teachers, who, through their scholarship, research, lecturing and writing, exert an influence outside the narrow discipline that pays their salary. The attendance at the symposium of some 300 doctors, scientists, researchers and medical journalists, not only from all parts of Ireland, but also from many distant lands, testifies to the depth and breadth of Petr Skrabanek’s influence as a challenger of medical orthodoxy. All too often, opinions are accepted as facts simply because of the status of their proponents, be they individuals or government-sponsored committees. The process is flawed: history is replete with absurdity posing as reality. With respect to the aetiology of a disease, or its recommended treatment, Skrabanek described the premature findings of committees of experts as ’nonsensus consensus’ [ 1 ] . However, the opinion leaders, who were responsible for the error in the first place, have a vested interest in sustaining their position, so they attack the dissenting opinion. All this was aptly described by Kuhn in his books [see, e.g. 2], but most health scientists have been slow to