I get the gist of what your comment must have been from the replies. It's a controversial idea, but one the medical community wrestles with all the time. Perhaps it was the way you communicated it, but I have heard many nurses and doctors ask, "At what point are heroic measures to save a life going too far?"
I think many people, myself included, see an MRI as a fairly benign, despite the radiation damage. If we are considering this in Darwinian terms, then pretty much any medical procedure is weakening the species. Fertilization procedures are birthing children who will one day also need fertilization procedures.
But then, aren't we all genetically weak at this point? Don't we all need technology to survive? Take away the tech, and I think 99% of us die in a month. It's true we are getting weaker, but we are locked in. Civilization is now a race between our weakening bloodlines and our ability to compensate for it with technology.
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I get the gist of what your comment must have been from the replies. It's a controversial idea, but one the medical community wrestles with all the time. Perhaps it was the way you communicated it, but I have heard many nurses and doctors ask, "At what point are heroic measures to save a life going too far?"
I think many people, myself included, see an MRI as a fairly benign, despite the radiation damage. If we are considering this in Darwinian terms, then pretty much any medical procedure is weakening the species. Fertilization procedures are birthing children who will one day also need fertilization procedures.
But then, aren't we all genetically weak at this point? Don't we all need technology to survive? Take away the tech, and I think 99% of us die in a month. It's true we are getting weaker, but we are locked in. Civilization is now a race between our weakening bloodlines and our ability to compensate for it with technology.
MRIs don't cause radiation damage, unlike something like a CT scan or xray.
You're right. I got my tests confused.