Actually I rely on reason, logic and reality and always try to test personal experience against those.
This thread is a great example of just that. Like you, I lived through the panics of the polio scares, and unlike you, I also had personal experience of a family member who had polio and a friend who eventually died of the disease.
But instead of just relying on my limited experience and anecdotal tales, I also looked at the actual facts.
Polio is a contagious virus caused disease. Sister Kinney's program cannot in anyway prevent someone from becoming infected. Once infected, her program seems to show about the same success rates as other methods that were available at the time with one great exception, all of the methods that used programs of rehabilitation work better than immobilization.
Sister Kinney's contribution was recognized and adopted in parts of Australia even before your report that you cite, and even the government that issued the report had reconsidered less than two years later and not just adopted her methods but also was sponsoring her travels to Great Britain to establish schools and clinics.
Within a short period she was also in the US teaching her methods and establishing a clinic.
These are all facts, and facts supported by cites you originally provided.
Now, if you want to argue that the medical-pharmaceutical-health care system in the US is screwed up, I would agree with you. But so far you have presented no evidence in support of such a position and that was not the topic of this thread.
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