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- From: green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein)
- Subject: Re: Use of term allopath
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.190339.6160@island.COM>
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- Organization: Strawman Incorporated
- References: <15783@pitt.UUCP> <1992Jul27.235859.7935@island.COM> <1992Jul28.192038.5433@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:03:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.192038.5433@ibmpcug.co.uk> george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul27.235859.7935@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
- >>I did not claim alternative medicine did all of those things. I did say
- >>Chinese medicine can cure asthma. Chinese herbal medicine is effective for
- >>certain types of heart disease, not valvular heart disease. IT usually
- >
- >Steroids cure asthma - if anything actually "cures" asthma.
-
- But then you have to deal with the damage caused by long-term steroid use.
-
- >>effectively treat many forms of arthritis. Please provide the quote
- >
- >Arthritis is often a waxing/waning illness.
-
- SO how does this negate what I said?
-
- >By their nature, alternative medicines are largely untested. This does not
- >mean that they do not work. It means that they are untested. Of course,
- >so, by and large, is battery acid. Apply caution before considering
- >alternative therapies - they offer no certainty of improvement beyond a
- >placebo effect.
-
- What? Untested you say? Chinese and auyervedic medicine have both been
- extensively tested and refined for several thousand years. How much
- more testing do you need? Please don't use the excuse that they were
- not using double-blind experiments. There is enough empirical evidence
- compiled with tens of thousands of observations, that this medicine
- absolutely works, and not on account of the placebo effect.
-
- Why is it that most M.D.'s, including the ones on this net seem to be
- unable to even entertain the possibility that other forms of medicine
- have anything worthwhile to contribute? Is this just ethnocentrism, or
- a turf battle?
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- Robert Greenstein What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking
- green@island.com that by his laughter he shows superiority instead
- of latent idiocy - M. Corelli
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