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fandomsecrets2010-09-19 05:01 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2010-09-19 05:01 pm
[ SECRET POST #1355 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1355 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Weird thing is, I've previously only seen that one put the other way around; if [insert alternative treatment here] works, why are there no side effects? (The most recent time I saw this it was coming from a sceptic who, in order to demonstrate that they were fake, 'overdosed' on homeopathic sleeping pills and filmed himself not passing out.) There's the base assumption made that nothing can have an effect that's focused wholly on the positive.
As for this paper trail you're speaking of, in some cases, that's true. But you're also working off the assumption that the Medical community isn't corrupted in some way.
I guess you missed the first half of the sentence you were replying to there: With scientific medicine it is possible for fail and fraud to slip through the net but there is, at least, always a paper trail for us to follow. There have been many verifiable cases of medical fraud, and there have been legal cases (such as the Vioxx trial) that have handed out compensation in the billions. Where are the equivalent responses to fraudulent alternative medicine? It's not like the alternative medical community isn't equally corrupted, hello Matthias Rath. But there's no class-action lawsuits, no across-the-board withdrawals of 'treatments' found to be useless or dangerous. That's the danger of that lack of a paper trail.
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I think I understand a little better about where you're coming from with the lack of paper trail for Alt. Medicine. Problem is that a lot of Alt. Med. is not researched thoroughly or effectively for a multitude of reasons.
Believe me, I know full well that there are a bunch of quacks out there pretending to be messiahs of alternative medicine. That is not all of us, I promise. But it is going to take some time before effective regulations are set up to weed out the money grubbers from the specialists that are actually trying and are capable of helping.