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- From: mary@Cayman.COM (Mary Malmros)
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Subject: Re: War cry of the scientific
- Message-ID: <MARY.92Dec27103754@martinique.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 15:37:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: martiniq.MARY.92Dec27103754
- References: <1han6gINN4uf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <schumach.725153887@convex.convex.com>
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- In-reply-to: schumach@convex.com's message of 23 Dec 92 23:38:07 GMT
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- In article <schumach.725153887@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
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- >the disease itself and the medicine, herb or treatment. Rather the
- >treatment works to bring the body back into balance allowing it to correct
- >the dis-ease naturally.
-
- This sounded good, before people knew anything about how bodies work.
- We have no such excuses today.
-
- It is true that Western scientific medical practioners know something about
- how bodies work. It is also true that practitioners of many other systems
- know something about how bodies work. It is absolutely not true that
- Western scientific medical practitioners know EVERYTHING about how bodies
- work. There are many conditions for which they know neither the cause nor
- the cure. In these cases, they're reduced to making educated guesses, and
- it makes sense to consider alternatives.
-
- [snip]
-
- Sorry to be so cranky about this, but we should not tolerate loose talk and
- careless thinking when peoples' health and lives are at stake. Some naif might
- mistake some of what passes here for actual wisdom.
-
- I think you've overstepped here, by a good bit. It's fine to point
- out flaws in someone else's reasoning, or correct them on something
- that's factually incorrect. But it's not your net, and you have no
- right to tell people that they may not discuss something that's
- within the charter of the newsgroup.
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