Sounds lovely. But it's all tripe.
If you watch a stream of random letters for long enough you'll occasionally see a description of something that kind of looks like a prediction that seems to pan out. It's still just random. More often it turns out that the magic men and conmen have been giving people cancer or simply feeding them poison (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=17499)
Because safety testing is too "western" and conformist.
Real doctors have been telling people to get more exercise, eat more fruit and veg and drink plenty of fluids for a long long time.
You don't have to be scientifically literate to understand that before you feed random crap to people you should probably check to see if it's literally deadly poison.
But the herb-pushers think they're too good for that. They've got too much secret spiritual knowledge to need to actually check if they're murdering people.
But the herb-pushers think they're too good for that. They've got too much secret spiritual knowledge to need to actually check if they're murdering people.
They're utterly incompetent and grossly negligent at best and murderous and greedy at worst.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Nico B. <perpetuatetheimaginary@gmail.com> wrote:
This is somewhat hard for me to agree with, only because I grew up in the Hippie/Alternative/Pseudoscience culture. In many ways, I agree that when it comes to the idea of "Medicine" we need to follow a rigorous evidence based approach when it comes to understanding various avenues of treatment. Though, there is a hilarious tendency for one of my old hippie buddies to talk about some wahoo idea that I brush off and 3-5 years later I read a scientific paper proving the validity of their claims. I think there is something to be said about "Intuitive/Alternative Medicine," and to call these concepts "non-medicine" (ie. meditations, mindfulness, change in diets, herbalism) is showing an ignorance to a different form of science. Simply because the findings of an herbalist, intuitive healer, or mindfulness coach are written in a different vernacular that isn't heavy in science-based terminology doesn't discredit the validity of their studies.--
I think when it comes to the fight for "Medicinal Transparency" its important for both sides of the spectrum to understand the frustrations of both sides of the medicinal coin. Many in the "Alternative" folks have a deep distrust for mainstream science/medicine for valid reasons such as a lack of transparency by pharma, medical professionals pushing drugs rather than treatments, and being prescribed 'medicine' with out being explained (or with out the necessary studies to provide) potential side effects. On the "mainstream" side, there is just as many complaints for an abundance of ambiguous language, non-compounded or peer reviewed evidence/studies, false claims for profits, placebo effects, bull shit claims about lunar energies energizing people rectums and curing their cancer. But let us not forget the so many times people in mainstream science have done the same for the sake of cutting corners, expediting approval, or creating higher profit margins. Bull shit doesn't see a divide between perspectives on medicine, bull shit artists are everywhere and don't discriminate between critical thinkers and intuitive persons.
The way I see it -- having one leg in the homeopathic/nutrition/herbalism/acupuncture/permaculture/psychedelic/alternative world, the other in the world of DIYbio/hackers/tech/big pharma/genetics/big agro/tech ed. -- there are two major perspectives on medicine: preventative based and treatment based. Big Med seems to be a front for the latter, the alternative to which the other side of the thinking world (the serious ones at the very least) work towards preventing the issues that pharma treats the symptoms of.. and its only recently that mainstream med has started to advocate for preventative medicine.
I got my money on the future of medicine being in a combination of healthy life style promotion/mitigation and after the fact treatments that big med has always provided. get off that scientific arrogant high horse and realize that just because someone isn't scientifically literate, doesn't mean that they don't know what they're talking about.
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