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Originally Posted by Thor
Solid advice, and by the way what science says too.
You are clinging to pseudo science in your arguments, trying to find logical reasons why naturopaths or alternative medicine have a reason for existing in this modern age..
But you are losing a battle of logic, sorry, but there is no great conspiracy, there are no great cures, treatments or benefits to "natural" remedies that isn't already in our medical literature or part of our understanding, anything outside that HAS to earn its way in by being tested.
Double blind studies are not that expensive, and there is no reason why any claim by these people cannot be tackled.
A great example is anti oxidants, took us probably 3 decades and intial promising research, but now with meta analysis we know its bunk and we were dead wrong about its benefits.
So we have to be diligent, we have to attack all claims and we have to rely on something that we can trust to give us the truth whether we like it or not, and that my friends is the scientific method.
Good night, and good luck.
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No disagreement there. I don't even recall arguing that these groups aught to exists. I also agree most of what alternative medicine has listed is already more or less common knowledge in the medical community. I'm certainly not arguing that there are any great cures, treatments or benefits from alternative medicine. I'm only arguing that it's highly unlikely that all of the traditional herbal remedies have already been explored by drug companies, and as such, the statement that any remedy prescribed that's any good is already provided by drug companies is almost certainly false. As much as we've learned about our bodies, there's even more we don't know.