I quickly posed this question the other day and it got a lot of interest and input. Turn's out I'm not the only one who is thinking about this exact thing.

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Yesterday I posted about how we used to literally blow cigarette smoke into people's ass to try to bring them back for that dead and I quickly posed the question I wonder what we are doing in medicine that will turn out completely insane in the future.

I was surprised people noticed this quick musing and casted some ideas. This is something I often think of not only in medicine but in the entire society and technology as well.

Hive account@coolbowser mentioned chemotherapy and radiation to cure cancer, which is definitely a strong possibility. I've often heard it referred to as nuclear bomb to kill a fly, and definitely the side effect profile and fact is can also cause other cancers makes it a very strange treatment option in deed.

The second thought from Hive account@mattclarke was root canals and saving rotten and dead teeth in someones mouth with this procedure. His brother is convinced that this directly causes dementia.

I personally think we will likely/hopefully see huge changes to antibiotic use in the future as we are currently approaching a crisis with antibiotic resistance and personally had a run in when I almost lost my finger from a simple cut since I was colonized with the super bug MRSA. Your welcome to check out that story here, but the photos are not for the squeamish.

My other personal though is that some sort of processed food additive or artificial sweetener will eventually turn out to be as toxic as some people suggest and become the new cigarettes or tobacco enema's.

I am a bit of a geek (you may have noticed) and love the dystopia novel genre. It all seams so possible that one day some sort of critical failure could come and world as we know it would cease to exist.

The big theories as I see it seam to be;

some sort of nuclear war,
economic/government collapse (or extreme governmental monitoring and loss of free though) and ensuing chaos,
climate change/natural disaster/loss of food security,
the singularity or AI taking over,
a super bug or medical catastrophe,
and lastly of course we could just be taken over by aliens.

I don't know if there is an official list or anyone has any to add but let me know.

I'm sure there are a lot of societal, technological or monetary things we are currently doing that will be crazy in future.

I'm not going to reiterate any of these theories above when it comes to other personal thoughts. I really do worry that many have a possibility of occurring and of course having something worth value to trade when it happens is part of the reason why I stack silver. In fact I strongly suggest this post that was just dropped by Hive account@tremendospercy who discusses this exact thing in detail. I do feel some sort of financial crisis is impending and this is the most likely threat in my mind.

I don't want to sound like a crazy stacker but I am also going to suggest that coming of the gold standard was the worst thing we ever did and has directly lead to some much of the debt crisis and uncontrolled inflation.

I really like the discussion that started from the last post and this is certainly something I like to think about and discuss.

Please keep the thoughts flowing in the comments and let your friend know to come and join in, maybe we'll even help change some opinions.

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