It is not uncommon to hear the medical fraternity criticising the effectiveness of a particular alternative cure, when they have not studied that methodology to any great extent, or even not studied it at all. Short of sounding ridiculous, it is impossible to fathom if anyone would allow an astrologer to remove a tumor from their brain. Yet though it should automatically follow that, one should likewise assume that a medical practitioner would not be able to predict the first day of spring or the gender of the your offspring, this is not so in our practical world. The medical community is allowed to use statistics and clever language to predict the gender of your child by just using a scan of the foetus. This is inspite of the fact that their methodology does not have the ability to conclusively predict the sex of the foetus, especially when it does not appear to be a male.

Over and above this, there are many clear mistakes made by the medical fraternity. Yet, only a handful of these representing the “tip of the iceberg” become exposed to the public. The most recent being the implantation of a black father’s sperms into a white mother during a recent IVF procedure in the Leeds Infirmary Hospital in the United Kingdom in February 2003.

So we really need to examine what we believe in? Asking ourselves whether we believe in something because it is fundamentally true, or is it because we choose to believe in it, that we conclude that it must necessarily be true?

For those of us who do not have the courage to challenge our beliefs, it is best that we stay within the limitations set by others like doctors, no matter how handicapped we may become as a result of this. For the rest of us who have the courage to challenge any belief, we may receive the unconditional reward of getting something we never thought hitherto possible.