Alternative medicine

[Ostroeuropa]

http://whale.to/b/chemtrails.html


http://whale.to/b/anti_semite.html
http://whale.to/b/zionists.html
http://whale.to/b/anne_frank.html
http://whale.to/b/holocaust_revisionism.html
http://whale.to/b/wiesenthal_h.html
http://whale.to/b/wiesel_h.html
http://whale.to/b/starvation_of_germans.html


http://whale.to/b/united_nations_h.html (general UN hysteria)


Closest thing I can find. http://whale.to/b/political_mafia.html


http://whale.to/b/gm_foods.html


http://whale.to/d/fluoride.html

Holy shit. How does anyone actually believe in that kind of nonsense?

*Shrug*
Homeopathic Education.
First, you dilute the books in water...

[Sociobiology]

it should be called pseudo-medicine, alternative implies it works.

[Shaggai]

it should be called pseudo-medicine, alternative implies it works.

But then they couldn't sell it.

[Chinese Regions]

Because nature. *nods*

Or, rather, an extreme misunderstanding and degrading romanticization of it.

This.

[Big Jim P]

I know certain herbs can be used to treat certain symptoms. I wouldn't call it alternative medicine though. Maybe natural medicine.

[Ermarian]

But there is science based around the whole aspirin willow bark thing

If something legitimately works then it's not alternative medicine, it's medicine.

Indeed. Minchin said it best.

[Des-Bal]

I know certain herbs can be used to treat certain symptoms. I wouldn't call it alternative medicine though. Maybe natural medicine.

Herbs don't treat symptoms, compounds in those herbs do. When we find an herb that treats a symptom we extract the compound in a pure or artificial form and make it into medicine. Alternative medicine is a bunch of hokum.

[Geilinor]

I know certain herbs can be used to treat certain symptoms. I wouldn't call it alternative medicine though. Maybe natural medicine.

If it can be proven through the scientific method and if the compounds from the herbs have been extracted before and worked successfully, I'd say it's medicine.

[Chinese Regions]

RESPECT MEDICINE, RESPECT STEM, TOO.

[Chishimotata]

Related: today, I went to the library out of boredom (and because I was waiting for my father to get off work to take me home). I found a copy of Keven Trudeau's Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know, and curiosity got to me, so I took a look.

RationalWiki was right. The book is full of stupid and the final chapter is how we should all sign up for his website. He encourages alkaline quackery, homeopathy, naturopathic doctors, the whole she-bang, and claims that there are no such thing as medical facts.

WHY DOES THIS BOOK EXIST?

[Regnum Dominae]

Related: today, I went to the library out of boredom (and because I was waiting for my father to get off work to take me home). I found a copy of Keven Trudeau's Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know, and curiosity got to me, so I took a look.

RationalWiki was right. The book is full of stupid and the final chapter is how we should all sign up for his website. He encourages alkaline quackery, homeopathy, naturopathic doctors, the whole she-bang, and claims that there are no such thing as medical facts.

WHY DOES THIS BOOK EXIST?

WHAT

[Pirate isle]

That book seems uh "interesting"

[Priory Academy USSR]

Related: today, I went to the library out of boredom (and because I was waiting for my father to get off work to take me home). I found a copy of Keven Trudeau's Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know, and curiosity got to me, so I took a look.

RationalWiki was right. The book is full of stupid and the final chapter is how we should all sign up for his website. He encourages alkaline quackery, homeopathy, naturopathic doctors, the whole she-bang, and claims that there are no such thing as medical facts.

WHY DOES THIS BOOK EXIST?

WHAT

It's not that surprising, is it? If he wants to sell his own product, then making sure people don't realise/accept that there are alternatives (heh) that actually work is a good strategy for getting more loyal customers.

[Pirate isle]

WHAT

It's not that surprising, is it? If he wants to sell his own product, then making sure people don't realise/accept that there are alternatives (heh) that actually work is a good strategy for getting more loyal customers.

You could say its a alternate strategy (That was awful help me)

[Shaggai]

Argh. I just remembered an old chiropractic pamphlet I found a while ago and kept to laugh at. I dug it up and looked through it. There's this one sentence, which says "Your brain sends nerve signals, or Life Energy, to the six Health Zones of your body". I'm really angry now. Not because of the sheer ignorance-that would just be funny-but because the "Health Zones" it mentions are things like "the circulatory system", "the digestive system", etc. It's the sort of thing you learn about in sixth-grade science class. It isn't that the person knows nothing about biology, but that they obviously phrased it specifically to prey on people who know nothing about biology.

[Conservative Conservationists]

Medicine has been created from trial and error. This is still going on with test drugs.
What I dont like about alternative medicine, is they pretend it has been proven as effective. If research has been done, most of it is poor without a placebo to analyse against and much of it is uncertain.

Non-Confirmed Medicine sounds more accurate to me.

The way I look at it, if someone is unwilling to put something in writing they are not confident about their own beliefs.
I can imagine the hours it would take to get an alternative medicine place to release a relevant study published in a peer reviewed journal.

[Chishimotata]

Related: today, I went to the library out of boredom (and because I was waiting for my father to get off work to take me home). I found a copy of Keven Trudeau's Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know, and curiosity got to me, so I took a look.

RationalWiki was right. The book is full of stupid and the final chapter is how we should all sign up for his website. He encourages alkaline quackery, homeopathy, naturopathic doctors, the whole she-bang, and claims that there are no such thing as medical facts.

WHY DOES THIS BOOK EXIST?

WHAT

I'm serious. A good part of the first chapter is about how there is no such thing as medical facts, but only opinions.

[Shaggai]

WHAT

I'm serious. A good part of the first chapter is about how there is no such thing as medical facts, but only opinions.

why

seriously, why

[Conservative Conservationists]

WHAT

I'm serious. A good part of the first chapter is about how there is no such thing as medical facts, but only opinions.

Then your health improvement is obviously an opinion and not a fact. You may be dying and bed ridden in horrible pain, but in my opinion you are in the best health you have ever been. Trust your medical professional who does not believe in medical facts.

[Vamtrl]

There are alternative medicines that work, but they should never be taken over conventional medicine.

[Regnum Dominae]

There are alternative medicines that work, but they should never be taken over conventional medicine.

Such as?

[Vamtrl]

There are alternative medicines that work, but they should never be taken over conventional medicine.

Such as?

Bilberry Tea and American Ginseng - for diabetes, used to lower blood glucose levels.

[Vareiln]

Recently discovered that my brothers have an unfortunate affinity for this stuff(In addition to other forms of pseudoscience, such as climate change denialism).
Oh well. They won't ever stop me from seeking treatment should I require it.

[Pensalum]

What about things like Aloe, or fish oil? Is that considered alternative medicine?

[Xirtam]

Modern medicine sure does have many problems that need fixing.
Hopefully with scientific progress it will get better though.
No reason to throw science out the window, at best alternative medicine would give a placebo effect, and there are other cheaper ways of doing that.