Nessus, I have never disputed what you're saying; I just disputed GGT's claim that we are 'sicker than ever' and that we neither heal nor cure anything. It was obviously wrong. Aggregate health has indeed increased by leaps and bounds - through medical technology and practice, public health interventions (e.g. smoking cessation campaigns), and modern civil engineering (e.g. water treatment, sanitation, etc.), and much more. To ignore that is to be guilty of this: