Santosh has been proved right all along. His long-running battle against alternative medicine on Goanet has been borne out by a latest article in the Economist.
Here are the points made in the article: Alternative medicine is 95% bunk. It is the slight placebo effect that had people fooled. All bogus claims should be cracked down on. The word "alternative" is misleading. Placebos can bring relief - though only in one's mental state. Alternative medicine practitioners (Santosh's quacks) provide care and concern to the patient, nothing else. Money spent on quackery spawns a huge industry. That is a lot of money spent on only placebos. Here is the Economist link: http://www.economist.com/node/18712290 There go all the "ventoz" for chest colds and the flaming spoons applied to naked flesh to cure jaundice that Goa grandmas swore by. What next Santosh? All belief in a loving God and Creator misplaced? Shades of Dawkins and Hitchens entering the closed minds.... Roland. Toronto.
