To vent
When you start looking into alternative medicines, you discover that scientists are not actually narrow minded. Think about it. If you were a scientist, and you were the first to thoroughly investigate an alternative therapy, and found it was a wonderful new treatment that revolutionised medicine ....
Your reputation would be made. You would be able to trot the very lucrative speakers circuit, write books, and end up a famous mega millionnaire.
As a result, alternative medicines are generally well tested by lots of scientists, many of who are hoping desperately that they are going to discover that it works so they can get on the gravy train.
Sadly, none of this has happened. Lots of therapies have been touted by lots of hopefuls, and these have been properly and rigorously tested by medical scientists. Apart from a few herbal remedies that have been modified and turned into pharmaceutical products, I cannot think of a single effective treatment or system of treatments that has stood up to rigorous testing and become mainstream medicine.
When you start looking into alternative medicines, you discover that scientists are not actually narrow minded. Think about it. If you were a scientist, and you were the first to thoroughly investigate an alternative therapy, and found it was a wonderful new treatment that revolutionised medicine ....
Your reputation would be made. You would be able to trot the very lucrative speakers circuit, write books, and end up a famous mega millionnaire.
As a result, alternative medicines are generally well tested by lots of scientists, many of who are hoping desperately that they are going to discover that it works so they can get on the gravy train.
Sadly, none of this has happened. Lots of therapies have been touted by lots of hopefuls, and these have been properly and rigorously tested by medical scientists. Apart from a few herbal remedies that have been modified and turned into pharmaceutical products, I cannot think of a single effective treatment or system of treatments that has stood up to rigorous testing and become mainstream medicine.