On 8/21/2014 3:10 PM, Share Long [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Oh, I thought by "proper doctor" you meant one who would prescribe
pills that cost $100 each and list the following possible side
effects: vomiting, headaches, rashes, death, chills, fever, leg cramps...
>
It looks like they don't want to talk about GMOs and the doctors getting
paid by Big Pharma.
"...despite overwhelming evidence that GM crops are safe to eat, the
debate over their use continues to rage, and in some parts of the world,
it is growing ever louder."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-genetically-modified-food/
>
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 3:02 PM, salyavin808
<[email protected]> wrote:
---In [email protected], <sharelong60@...> wrote :
dear Salyavin even though it frightens me to ask: exactly how do you
define "proper doctor?"
One that doesn't prescribe you untested snake oil or placebo's
obviously. Someone with an actual medical training perhaps, who can
spot health problems and actually do something about them rather than
wave a hand over you while chanting in sanskrit.
Didn't we have this conversation last week?
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:14 PM, salyavin808
<[email protected]> wrote:
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
On 08/21/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Doesn't your Royal Family use homeopathy?
Oh well, it must be true then. I suppose wearing a crown
makes you immune from errors of reasoning.
Well, I was kidding you, of course.
Even Turq once disagreed with Curtis anti-homeopathic
stance because he had actually found a homeopathic
substance useful. There's something to the science even
if it twiddles the mind of a high school trained scientist.
That's the point, there is nothing to the science. That's
why we do science, to work out what's real from what
isn't, there's nothing like blind testing to give the lie
to dodgy claims. Like we did with astrology and all sorts
of other nonsense. Check the periodic table posted by MJ
earlier for details.
:-D
Problem is the naysayers are "often reviewing a movie without
having seen it." These ideas sound wacky to them until the
"white coats" adopt it for their mainstream medicine (as has
happened with some of ayurveda).
=
You actually can get homeopathy on the National Health in the
UK but there is a campaign to stop it as using tax payers
money to fund something you can demonstrate is ineffective
when there are so many people with health problems that simply
drinking water given to you by someone friendly won't cure,
the money should go to effective and tested treatments.
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I would say that until something is tested it shouldn't be
described as medicine (this happens here anyway) if ayurvedic
treatments survive double blind tests then yes, they should be
included in public health programmes. But as it is it's not a
system of knowledge but a set of folk beliefs, some of which
are known to be seriously dangerous. Testing is expensive
though so I fall back on my trusty old maxim: try ayurveda
until there is something wrong with you, then go see a proper
doctor.
=
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:59 AM, "Share Long
sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Michael, are you being paid by Big Pharma?!
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:47 AM, "Michael Jackson
mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
What everyone on FFL needs on their wall
http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2010/10/handy-alternative-therapy-flowchart.html
The Reason Stick: A Handy Alternative Therapy Flowchart
<http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2010/10/handy-alternative-therapy-flowchart.html>
Believe it or not, I don't really have a particular
interest in alternative therapies, I just can't help
picking at the scabs of alt-med credulity.
View on crispian-jago.blogspot...
<http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2010/10/handy-alternative-therapy-flowchart.html>
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