These issues have been discussed many times on Goanet. I have already stated what is meant by a reliable medical source in my last post in this thread. To reiterate, a reliable medical source is exemplified by the "public health resource website of a recognized medical institution or organization". Here are some examples of such websites:
http://health.nih.gov/ http://www.icmr.nic.in/ http://www.who.int/en/ I realize that this might be hard for people who are accustomed only to thinking in terms of politics, ideology and religion to understand. But modern medicine is a science. In science one does not believe in anything or admit anything is true unless: a) it is supported by reproducible experimental or observational evidence obtained from properly conducted scientific studies, and b) it can be understood in terms of (and does not contradict) established physics, chemistry and/or biology. The practices and rituals that are at present grouped under "complementary" or "alternative" medicine do not have any scientific basis. Properly conducted scientific studies have failed to provide evidence that they can cure any disease. Anecdotal claims of "cures" are made only by alternative practitioners, publicists, promoters, activists, individual consumers and marketers of alternative products. The promotion of the so-called alternative nostrums has become an anti-establishment political and ideological movement. It has also been taken over by countless multi-level marketing schemes. A reliable medical source on the so-called alternative or complementary medicine is the following website of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. http://nccam.nih.gov/ This medical institution has spent millions of dollars - more than any other organization in the world - over the past 2 decades to try to find scientific evidence for alternative medical claims of "cures". It has come up empty in every single case. Cheers, Santosh ----- Original Message ----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> What does one mean by reliable medical source? Does the allopathy medical market believe in complementary medicine? Will allopathic medical science admit that for answers to ailments it does not have, there is a cure thru' alternate medicine? In short, will this huge medical market ever admit there exist medicines at just one-fourth the cost of allopathy treatment or even at no cost? I will sad for people who shell out thousands to control their diabetes, BP and gout and so on. -- Soter D'Souza Socorro,Goa 9890056616
