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Originally Posted by calf
After a few days of thinking about this verdict, while feeling outraged at Stephan's indignation and lack of remorse, I can't quite reconcile someone doing what they think is best for their child's health, making a mistake, and being criminally prosecuted as a result. At least within the current legal framework.
That being said, I'd like to see new regulations put in place around "natural" remedies. Find a way to make it illegal to administer them to children as a primary way to "cure" their ailments, or administer at all. Disclose/put on warning labels saying there's no scientific proof about their claims, and are to be used for therapeutic/relief of symptoms only, so they may not work. Things like that so parents are pushed towards modern medicine to treat their child.
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I'd have more sympathy if it was some rube who had been convinced that this was the way to go. My sympathy disappears when it is he who was peddling the garbage, would have been exposed to all sorts of research that he ignored, and that he still believes in it, even after it killed his kid. Now he and his followers are even more emboldened by the verdict, even if it isn't clearing him in the way he thinks it is.