Is Science Failing Our Horses? How To Navigate Agenda Manipulated Studies. - Geoff Tucker DVM.

Описание: Welcome to The Horse’s Advocate Podcast episode 38: “Is Science Failing Our Horses? How To Navigate Agenda Manipulated Studies by Geoff Tucker, DVM.” Recorded on December 8, 2021

Horses have been around for about 55 million years. They have been with humans for nearly 5000 years. Unfortunately, machines have replaced horses in many parts of the world since the mid-1950s, and the information about raising healthy horses is lost. As a result, diseases including obesity, insulin resistance, laminitis, Cushing's, developmental orthopedic disease, tooth decay, lameness, certain types of colic, and more have started or have been on the rise for the past 40 years.

We look to science to find the answers. Yet, science is either failing or is being usurped by marketing to sell agenda-driven scientific results to horse owners. Today's podcast will look at the complexities of the art of scientific research and how it is being manipulated by marketing, with the result only sometimes in the best interest of horses. Is it the scientist's fault? Not really. It is the art of science that non-scientists need to realize is fallible. This misunderstanding leads to a lack of trust and, worse, harm to us and our horses.

This podcast is a discussion not of science but of all horse owners and technicians (including veterinarians) who want to trust the science but are confused when we see that the science isn't always working. Instead, we should start subtracting what we think we know in our additions to the lives of horses, look at what evolution has taught us, and trust in the great experiment of nature.


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