Surfman wrote:
Callista wrote:
Surfman, don't fool yourself: Naturopathy is big business, and it always has been. Those people make more than most mainstream doctors, and the people who sell nutritional supplements are getting pretty rich off that, too. Whether they're independent or associated with a multinational corporation, they're in it for the money, simple as that. So are the drug companies; but at least the drug companies have to go through a rigorous multi-year testing program to ensure that their new drug is safe and effective. When it comes to alternative medicine, the honest ones will sell things they actually believe work; the dishonest ones will sell whatever you'll buy. The problem? You can't tell the difference between the two, and even the honest ones don't have the research to back up their claims most of the time. When they get that research, we call that "mainstream medicine" and the family doctor starts prescribing it.
Being in a business for the money doesn't necessarily mean that someone is unscrupulous. One of the best business strategies is to provide a quality product. So just because a company makes a lot of money, doesn't mean that they are trying to trick you. In the case of drug companies, they are always living with the risk that some new drug will be inadequately tested and will turn out to be dangerous, and their company will go bankrupt. For a drug company, it pays to carefully test a drug before releasing it.
Re. GI health and autism: Remember two things. First, GI problems are extremely common. Like, practically everybody in the world will have them at some time or another, and children are especially susceptible. And second, autistic people who are more sensitive to their own physical condition will benefit more than NT children for the exact same treatment for the exact same common ailment.
Ummm thanks Callista, but I think your the one fooling yourself by promoting toxic medical substances made in Chinese labs...... over organically grown plants used for millennia by healers, thriving in the sun and wind and soil.....
If your look into medical misadventure (Doctors who kill patients with 'medicines') you can easily see which is safer for the patient.
In NZ medical misadventure accounts for a great deal of extra suffering for patients...........................
herbs, vitamin and mineral therapy is safe as houses
not like toxic chemicals in pills that accumulate in organs like your liver and destroy your immunity and/or overall well being
Do you get paid by someone to write here?? Lobbyist representing large multinational companies would give you cash for your words if you wanted to promote them......
I do agree that autism wont go away with anything, and staying healthy is as good as it gets for aspies
I agree that many drug companies couldn't care less about who they're poisoning, as long as they make a profit, but you're kidding yourself if you think that alternative medicine is effective just because it's "natural", or somehow any more trustworthy.
Almost all alternative medicine relies entirely on the placebo effect. Anything which can be proven to be even a little effective is taken on by large companies and turned into drugs. As you say, this stuff has been used for thousands of years, there has been plenty of time for mainstream medicine to figure out what actually works and what doesn't.
Of course, a large part of mainstream medicine is also entirely reliant on the placebo effect, so we're not saying much.
Shamanism takes many forms, but one thing that all of its forms share to at least some degree, is fraud. Doctors succeed in life by appearing to have all the answers, not by actually having them.
16 Feb 2012, 9:12 am
