Jill as you know
This is a forum, this is where sick people gather. One is hardly likely to come across a gathering of doctors, or nutritional experts. We are simply ill and toxic and mostly ordinary people. I am sure there probably is the odd person here who is quietly highly qualified, but probably not blowing their own trumpet. The rest, like any other health forum, are filled with sick people trying to find answers. to heal ourselves in anyway we can. Most of us have already been down the mainstream medical path and exhausted doctors and other experts who really do not have all the answers either it would seem. Doctors have mostly only ever been uselful to me when the health issue is obvoius and textbook stuff. Other than that, they have wasted my time and my money. There are many experts in many areas and we do the research we can to find out whether their theories prove to be helpful to us. Most of us here have already been harmed or let down by so-called experts, the highly qualified, the medical and dental industry and we are here hoping other kinds of experts and highly qualified, some working in the same areas, will undo the damage of their peers and provide us with information we desperately need, things that willl help, rather than harm or do nothing. From there we try things out, if they work, we share it with others. Nobody is claiming they got the info out of thin air, but we should also remember that even the most qualified and intelligent does not always have all the answers, which is why we need to research many of them and take the meat and spit out the bones. They are still humans afterall and still learning too.

Yeah we do definitely need these people. I dont think anybody here would claim otherwise, but let's not forget we have also been greatly harmed by them also.

I have a lot of admiration and respect for many of them, those that learn from their mistakes and listen to their patients. Sadly many do not and due to their superiority complex, waste their minds and instead develop their egos.
Professing to be wise, they risk becoming fools and can end up letting down the sick, the people they are meant to help. If they listened and had enough concern and humility, coupled with the acute mind many of them obviously have, I am certain most of us would not have such cynicism towards many of them.
Oh yeah they are needed, I consider the brain surgeons and all those people that save lives and do things I could not even hope or imagine being able to do or even study for that matter. They have my total admiration and they deserve it too.
But again, we are hardly likely to find them on here Jill, we just do our best with the info we gather from people more learned than we are and apply it and hope it works.