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In reply to the discussion: Study: Homeopathy not effective in treating anything [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)What is with your racial argument about "white man's" medicine. Does that also mean that is a "white man's" science?
Again, there is no such thing as complimentary or alternative medicine. There is only medicine, based on science which has no color.
Your argument has no basis in fact. And your appeal to some racial straw man is utterly odious.
There is no hope whatsoever in your argument. It is insidious and anti-science.
And concerning those deaths and complications due to poorly regulated pharmaceuticals, at least they are fucking regulated, unlike the utter snake oil of the alternative and complimentary medicine business. Supports the immune system! (Whatever the fuck does that mean? -- DSHEA forbids them from making disease claims, so their ads descend to unscientific marketing gobbledygook.) But it's natural! (So are arsenic, lead, and uranium. But I wouldn't bank on them being helpful treatments.) The word "natural" is nothing more than a marketing term.
AltMed is nothing but a marketing scam. But, What's the Harm? Click through for some horrific cases.
Science based medicine has extended human life expectancy by decades. Alternative medicine has nothing -- zippo, nada -- to show for itself. That is because there is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine, based on science.
The people advocating AltMed are being led down a primrose path.
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