KetPan

Ketan Panchal · @KetPan

29th Apr 2010 from Twitlonger

@bharkadatta @marvisirmed @taslimanasreen I'll give few more examples: Vaccination/immunization is a fairly modern concept, and possibly hardly any scripture says anything about it.

Some vaccines are to injected, and the child cries, may also develop fever for some time. All this seems to be bad thing to do. So, is vaccination good or bad for child? Can such questions be answered without critical enquiry?

I'd seen on Discovery channel, that an American couple had met with an accident. Husband had lost lot of blood. The religion he had followed disallowed injection of any kind fluids into his body. So his wife did not allow transfusion of fluids or blood. He died despite 4 or 5 doctors taking care & not sleeping for 72 hours. According to them he would've very likely survived had his wife gone against their religion and allowed transfusion.

In my internship at the first aid center in Shirdi temple, a man who was about to undergo coronary bypass surgery in a week had stood in a queue in summer afternoon to gain darshan of Sai Baba, despite strong advise from doctors to take rest. He got 'heart attack', collapsed & died. He was brought to me, I tried to resuscitate. But to no avail. Besides me were his wife & two teenaged children. Their lives were completely devastated. Could all this have been avoided? How? I think by the said man asking right questions, and doing a risk-benefit analysis of waiting in queue as against taking rest i.e., using critical enquiry.

How do we reject some news on TV or in newspaper as untrue or distorted? Again, by critical enquiry, and using skepticism.

How do we not respond to emails coming from Bank of Africa luring us with loads of money? Again, critical enquiry & skepticism.

Hence, I said using critical enquiry & skepticism are better (than not using them), something @bharkadatta strongly disagreed with with mostly because she misunderstood me. :)

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