IBM Watson Dehumanizing Veterans CareJefferey Jaxen Big Data Used Against You IBMs Watson can understand and respond to Big Data. This is a catch-all phrase that encompasses medical literature, clinical data, personal electronic records, and doctors personal comments on patients. For years, it has been an open secret that all of our Big Data has been harvested and stored without our consent. This includes every Facebook thought, phone conversation, every purchase, and household conversation to name a few. There is no doubt that this Big Data is waiting to be used towards withholding or forcing medical treatment at the stroke of a bureaucratic pen in the future. The role being given to IBMs Watson represents the official shift to disempower the practicing medical community and accelerate the mandates of Obamacare in your individual life. You could say IBMs Watson is common core re-education for the mind of the medical community. All personal medical records will be uploaded and delivered from the cloud according to IBMs press release. Presumably the same cloud computing software that was recently hacked resulting in the public release of nude celebrity photos taken from their trusted wireless devices and computers linked to the cloud. Corrupt Data Recently, Charles Seife made major headlines when he published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that research misconduct is often unreported in published medical studies. These are the same medical studies that the IBMs Watson will reference to issue orders on what treatment a patient gets. In addition, the current clinical data and medical literature being used by Watson has produced a disastrous 1 in 22 Veteran suicides per day, a fast approaching 1 in 2 people with cancer, and 1 in 68 children with autism in the United States. It is the insight, humanity, courage, and empathy to look for solutions outside this broken system that will lead to better ways. While using data, old and new, from a Veterans Affairs system that has a treacherous public record for poor quality care, limited use for cures, and a profits-over-people view shows further recklessness at best and perhaps a deeper agenda at play. Fool Me Once From the get go, IBMs Watson is a slap in the face to anyone paying attention. IBM cemented its corporate influence by making Hollerith, their big data punch card sorting machines for Germany during World War II in order to better locate Jewish residents when Hitler came to power. In the words of Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and Americas Most Powerful Corporation, Black continues later in his historic analysis to state: References: IBMs Watson Announcement Jefferey Jaxen is an independent journalist, writer, and researcher. Focusing on personal empowerment and alternative health, his work reveals a sharp eye to capture the moment in these rapidly changing times. His personal page is located at JeffereyJaxen.com, where this first appeared. 