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- From: madhavn@madhavn.mentorg.com (Madhav Nerurkar)
- Subject: Re: War cry of the scientific
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.010448.24145@news.mentorg.com>
- Sender: madhavn@madhavn (Madhav Nerurkar)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:04:48 GMT
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- I am a layman who uses modern medicine but is curious about alternatives,
- e.g. homeopathy. Any discussion about alternative health, either here on
- this newgroup or elsewhere quickly centers around validity of the
- alternative methods. So here is what I want to ask:
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- Is there a simple decisive test in modern medicine that will determine if
- a given alternative theory has some merits ?
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- There can be significant lag, even of lifetimes, between empirical
- observations and an understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Without a
- test won't we either run the risk of passing up on real opprtunities or
- run the risk of taken in by a scam.
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- If in fact such a test exists, is it applied to inventions in modern
- medicines or is it basically the prestige of the institutions that decides
- the outcome ?
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- Thanks,
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- Madhav Nerurkar
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- Disclaimer: These are my opinions.
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