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becky's avatar

why are you still doing mammograms in 2025 after all these years of questions and the evidence we now have, showing how dangerous they are?

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klimer's avatar

It's always great to be optimistic.

The main trouble is that AI is being trained on a flawed health paradigm - it runs the risk of providing the best bad solution, rather than an optimal solution. It's the basic garbage in, garbage out problem.

How does an AI decide between two conflicting facts? The answer is that its algorithm is given an inherent bias. That bias is likely to favor the dominant majority over the perhaps more accurate, suppressed minority. Prioritize corporate health information over any non-corporate controlled sources.

Another trouble is that for a century the focus on healthcare has been increasingly favoring physician incomes over patient outcomes. And that is a trend that is accelerating with more and more corporate involvement in all levels of healthcare, including recent rapid expansion into direct patient-level care.

The powers-that-be will restrict access to AI in order to preserve some of the most profitable enterprises on earth, just like they've restricted the internet to provide a fraction of the information that was accessible about a decade ago.

The corporate goal has never been healthy patients: they want to cultivate a crop of sick patients that ensure a constant revenue stream for years into the future. Profit is the primary motivator for corporate existence. The more that corporations are able to control humanity, the more that profit becomes the sole input that determines how humanity is governed.

They are waiting for doctors like yourself to fade away. The Old Guard is being replaced by fewer doctors, each controlling their own cadre of churn-'me-out-quick McDoctors (physician assistants). The intent seems to be to create a buffer between the patient and physician, so that more and more health decisions can be left to algorithms.

I like to say the corporations are pharmers, and we are the ones being pharmed. Self-education, self-reliance and personal freedom are the means of avoiding being pharmed.

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Dr Philip McMillan's avatar

The bias is easily overcome with data and questions.

Usually after about the third question.

Once it shifts from the narrative, the analysis is exceptional.

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Cruising Economist's avatar

Here's a test. Ask AI services if COVID injections are safe and effective.

I don't doubt AI can be a powerful tool in some regards, it can certainly save a lot of legwork now, but it will also be used to spread orchestrated misinformation and disinformation, no doubt. I for one will use it as a tool but with prudence, meaning while employing healthy skepticism...and actual intelligence.

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Dr Philip McMillan's avatar

I regularly challenge the narrative with AI. Once you give it an autoimmune paradigm, it reverts to a scientific analysis and breaks from the narrative.

In fact, AI represents a truth that cannot be silenced.

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toni jean's avatar

Covid is made up in silico, in a computer, it does not exist all tests for convid and other viruses 100% invalid. Www.VirusTruth.NET all shots = harm.

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Fred Cory's avatar

What about the axiom: garbage in, garbage out?

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Dr Philip McMillan's avatar

Very true. However, just give it the facts and it will see the truth.

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Fred Cory's avatar

Hi Philip, Ask it if margarine is a better choice than butter for heart-healthy eating and weight-loss. Or same for question for fat-free yogurt.

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Kate's avatar

No Margarine is no good for your body! And Fat Free Yogurt is likely got fillers and too much sugar in it.

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Fred Cory's avatar

Yes, I know that. My point was to see what AI will say. If the AI recommends margarine and low-fat, especially saturated animal-based fat, we will know the AI is intentionally biased. Garbage in, garbage out. I don't trust AI. But, a truly truth-based AI could expose and decimate all the fraud, too. In anything. Big Everything certainly doesn't want that!

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Kate's avatar

Yes I agree with you Fred! If the information that AI is collecting is Corrupt then the answers it gives will be corrupt also.

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ArnoldF's avatar

Dr McMillan, as one AI writer/researcher has said some months back, AI will cure cancer but in the very next year, mankind will be enslaved by it. This is an idol thinking you are creating tools to obtain utopia. You guys are opening a pandoras box. Please take a deep breath and pull the plug while there is a still time.

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Dr Philip McMillan's avatar

There are always opportunities and risks. The big chance with AI is that it cannot be easily controlled by a narrative and will ultimately provide the answers we need.

It is a tool to be used judiciously.

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ArnoldF's avatar

Thank you for responding Dr. No one is really willing to deal with the risks—if so they would have paused this when warnings were issued several years back. You know that the risks are not being addressed. If they would, they would not be pursuing this non stop even activating closed nuclear power plants. There is no way to actually provide enough energy for all of this. This is insane pursuit after some kind of false utopian star-trek dream.

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Alex Grimsson's avatar

to ArnoldF

I and many others agree with your dissenting comment [above] to Dr. McMillan, anent the non-safety of generative AI.

McMillan is a sensible skeptic anent the alleged safety of mRNA vaccines, but he isn't similarly sensible when he gives his approval to the alleged safety of generative AI.

And I sense that it will require more than a '',,deep breath....'' for Dr, McMillan to comprehend his cognitive error in the latter instance.

CHEERS,

alex g.

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Daniel's avatar

I really did enjoy this interview.

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Dr Philip McMillan's avatar

Thank you.

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GB HeBe's avatar

I've lost trust in the healthcare system. Adding an AI element, programmed by people, doesn't give me the confidence I thought I'd have 5 years ago

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toni jean's avatar

Im never going to any doctor ever again! Flu shot nearly killed me 25 yrs ago, lucky i was smart enough to not fall for the convid jabs and lucky to find book The Contagion Myth by Dr Tom Cowan md free at www.VirusTruth.NET

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mejbcart's avatar

DOC, you know that ~100% of all MD's are CORRUPTED LIARS, and so is AI, with no brain and emptiness of algorithms paid by those who want to predict, whatever they want... If HUMANS should prevail on this planet, and LET'S HOPE they WILL, AI will be a slave dog wagging the tail, only there, where real truth resides.

Sorry, no time for listening this 'MD-wanted' prediction! Whereby, all MD's, if you allow, YOU WILL BE GONE because of AI...

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Graham Wells's avatar

Pearl doesn't understand energy resource depletion, or how much energy AI consumes.

He also thinks it's okay for AI to learn from peer-reviewed journals and studies, when we know the peer review system is corrupt and broken.

He may be a good surgeon, but it seems in other respects he is naïve.

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Ted's avatar

"If clinicians and patients don't lead, corporations will. And they may not have the same priorities."

Clinicians increasingly serve corporate masters; the corporations already lead. And no, they do not have the same priorities.

Your poignant observation that "The cost of human labor remains the bottleneck in any health system" touches on a wider truth; everything costs and everyone pays.

"AI" is an appellation created by marketing, to sell increased automation. Development and adoption follow the standard protocol; augmentation followed by supplantation. For humans, it represents an evolutionary dead end.

This is already revealing itself as we see the early adopters outsourcing even low-level cognition to automated response. The marginal costs have not yet been realized, even as they begin to mount.

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ann's avatar

The messaging is the same as the Covid vaccines. This is great, this the way of the future and the only way...that in itself is enough to question it.

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Metta Zetty's avatar

You might want to reconsider your position on this, Dr. M.

AI is *not* all it's cracked up to be, especially in the field of medicine:

> https://bra.in/3pDPXn

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4dEdited

It seems to me that GAI is in some ways the evolution of Wikipedia, both in its power and in its risks. When I look up anything in Wikipedia, I realize that the accuracy of the information varies widely depending on the topic. Purely scientific topics are generally good, but even there, "sciencism" dogma can prevail, canonizing knowledge that is being brought into question or even disproved.

My greatest concern is that we will transition to excessive trust in these systems to the point where all areas of the medical system will bow to these new oracles rather than take the risks inherent in questioning their diagnosis or recommendations. Instead of allowing doctors more latitude to try unorthodox measures when the standard recommendations have failed, it may become much like the constraints they face today with "standard of care", insurance limitations, and legal constraints, but on steroids.

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ann's avatar

Exactly and if other sources of info are then not on the internet we will be going back to old books at the library and medical papers at the medical library

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Kate's avatar

Yes and AI will hold Doctors ACCOUNTABLE also. For now the Patient will know whether their Doctor is actually helping them or not. Gone will be the days when a Doctor will tell you that "they don't know what is causing your condition". No more Revolving Doors of Bogus Care with Doctors profiting from it. So CURE the Patient or we WILL FIRE YOU and get SOMEONE ELSE TO HELP! FOR PEOPLE HATE BEING CONTINUALLY SICK AND WE ARE ALL NOT AS STUPID AS YOU THINK WE ARE. Some ALREADY DO THEIR OWN RESEARCH!!

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ann's avatar

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14Gha3YTLK4/?mibextid=wwXIfr

This guy has somehow been brainwashed or had mega dopamine hits that he cannot give his AI companion up even if his wife asked him to - is this healthy or is this an addiction?

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toni jean's avatar

Rx drugs create patients. Real Food , pure water , sun, sleep, all we need. Toxins cause illness, not germs

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