Only in recent years has the actual science come far enough to start approaching the partial understanding of human function to the point where one can perform meaningful and useful scientific experiments. (And it is still a very, very long way off...) There has to be a basis of understanding to work from. (Not "what happens when I poke this?")
They still think (or want us to believe) that there can be a cure for cancer. Nope. Sorry. Not going to happen. Cancer is a side effect of the machine that cannot be avoided. Avoid cancer and you avoid life. (pure gut instinct, but I am confident that future science - not medicine - will confirm this). The untold billions... pissed away. Look at the tissues that cancer occurs in. That should tell them something, but they just don't get it. It is not about science in medicine, it is about profit.
I guess what gets me is the sensationalist headlines that read "Scientists do such and such or so and so", when there is no pure science involved. Researchers performing medical statistical studies (often horrifically flawed) are presented as "Scientists". I find that offensive.
As you will note that public interpretation and acceptance of science depends on what the media tells them to think.
Maybe we need a new word for real science. Sort of like how impact has come to mean effect and nothing physical at all. Science has come to mean something it did not. We need a new word for pure science, so the public has a half chance of understanding the difference.
I will concede that some medicine is science, but it is the exception and not the rule in my experience.
Health Canada is a classic example.
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