Learning to Think For Myself...

I am in school to be a massage therapist, and I am finding myself being bombarded with all this 'controversial information'. I love what I am learning about massage and it's benefits and practical uses. But there are all these "controversial issues" that are brought up in my class, and SO many people around me buy into it, and I just don't know who to believe.

I try to take it and look at it, and think about it. Most of it, I come to the conclusion that I don't think I am going to radically change my diet to only organic foods, organic supplements, organic blah blah blah. I know the people at school are only reading the side of the story they want to hear. Sure all the literature they read says, for example, that fluoride is a carcinogen, and is unnecessary to maintain healthy teeth. But is it true, or do they just not read the other side of the research? Then you ask someone like my dad, who is VERY opinionated about everything, and he just figures those people have an agenda, and they are out to lunch. (and I tend to agree, that anyone who renames themself Dolphyn IS probably out to lunch :P)

I know I am old enough to decide for myself, but it is just strange to me. I am someone who for the most part needs some solid proof (ie research) before I will believe in it. There have been a lot of things that have been brought up in school, things that I have never even given a second thought to before (like NOT receiving immunizations, all natural home child birth, not using fluoride, etc), but I have learned not to take everything they tell me at school as absolute fact. I suppose, if anything, it has taught me to think for myself.