Alternative Medicine Goes Mainstream
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AssociatedPress asked:
More than a third of all Americans have used unconventional therapies and herbal remedies even though they have not proved to be safe or effective. (June 7)
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June 15th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
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@2xtream “Published Medical Reviews” is a little less specific than I was hoping for. Which reviews exactly are you citing? Im VERY curious as to which medical review provides evidence that we have a cure for AIDS or Cancer that is deliberately being withheld for profit. As a physician Im sure I would have been alerted to this conspiracy by now.
June 17th, 2010 at 9:11 am
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Recent visit to the Doctor, True story…. I am over 50 when asked what medications I am currently taking my reply was NONE! … This seemed very strange for the nurse, then followed up by the Doctor that came in after a short wait. Again asked what medications I was Taking? My reply was None, And Never had to take any meds other than an antibiotic many years ago… The Doctor said that was very unusual being surprized. My response was I’m able to Manage my own Health just fine…
June 20th, 2010 at 1:03 am
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@jns124able: Published Medical Reviews… Its no wonder people need Doctors. They believe they can live the life they want without any regard and to rely on Doctors for there folly… Wake up kids!!! If you eat out of the microwave oven your whole life only to find you have cancers to mention just one sickness that prays on the Lazy… You will get the Doctoring they have waiting… Then they will MANAGE YOUR HEALTH CARE FOR LIFE !!!!
June 22nd, 2010 at 3:48 am
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@mattwion I guess my question is: is it ethical to allow people to believe these sham treatments are actually making physiological difference when it is not? Particularly if it is costing them money? The moment the public thinks the medical profession is being dishonest or not completely up front…the profession loses public trust and the patient-doctor relationship breaks down. This is why most competent and conscienscious physicians will not do this.
June 25th, 2010 at 11:35 am
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@2xtream and where exactly do you get this information?
June 26th, 2010 at 3:17 am
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@keymasterninja as a canadian trained senior med student…thankyou for that. =)
June 26th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
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@openbookguy um…you seem to insinuate that all physicians (or at least most) have some hidden agenda. Thats not the case. In addition, things get :poo poo’ed” as i think you mean to call it by doctors not because they arent patented, but because they are not proven. Medicine is an evidence based practice…this isnt the case with alternative modalities. It may just happen (by no accident) that the unproven treatments are also not patented but the lack of a patent isnt the reason.
June 29th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
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@ramcity but lets not confuse the energy fields of atoms etc with energy fields that modalities such as Reiki claim to manipulate.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:54 am
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“Traditional” medicine also claims that there is no cure for cancer…which is the biggest filthiest lie of all. There are cures in nature…but they can’t be patented so are poo poohed by the parma criminals.
July 3rd, 2010 at 3:59 am
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Yes but many alternative medicines have side effects to. Side effects include; doing nothing to your illness, A feeling of being ripped off, not being taken seriously, and in serious diseases, death. We’re working out the negative side effects. You aren’t.
July 6th, 2010 at 12:42 am
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How can alternative medcine be mainstream? Isn’t “alternative” the “opposite” of “mainstream”?
July 8th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
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Keymaster– have you traveled all around the world looking at treatments that work and been sick enough to try anything? I have and I have seen simple vitamins and minerals cure almost anything. I’m not saying pharmaceuticals don’t work they do. They suppress symptoms and don’t get at the real cause! If you look at it long enough its pretty simple… Unless the cure is a deficiency in a patentable pharmaceutical, your not going to get cured! What was the last thing they cured? TB in 1944??
July 10th, 2010 at 10:42 am
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vitamins and herbs..a waste of money?? This vid must be sponsored by codex alimentarius!! Jokers.. p.s. look ionto what “proven” means
July 11th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
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Pharaceuticals have PROVEN negative side effects
July 12th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
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BTW ram, bloodletting is still done as “alternative” medicine in parts of the world, it’s all the outdated stuff too…
July 14th, 2010 at 6:26 am
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Sure Keymaster. Whatever you say.
July 16th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
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@openbookguy
Medicines are tested on a double blind basis, the doctors don’t know who is getting what either. The tests are then done again, done by scientists who have no ties to the medical community and so on, it takes around six years.
If they are called ineffective after six years testing… it’s because they’re ineffective. Stop with all your conspiracy theory BS please and think logically about it.
July 19th, 2010 at 4:09 am
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@ramcity : “alternative” medicine have been around for thousands of years yes, that is exactly why you should stop thinking they work, when first looking into medicine, all we had was the alternative. What we tested and proven to work became “traditional” medicine. All you’re paying for with Alternative medicine is a persuasive man/woman convincing you it’ll work and the placebo effect. It’s literally all in your head
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:31 am
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yay! nonsense!
July 25th, 2010 at 11:47 am
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If you look at traditional medicine 100 years ago and look at where it is today then think about where it will be in another 100 years from now. Todays medicine will seem as primitive as bloodletting. Whereas “alternative” treatments like acupuncture and chi-gung healing have been the same for thousands of years. So before you discount the idea of invisible energy fields think about what we are all made of. Cells, molecules, atoms. We are all walking energy fields.
July 26th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
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what a bunch of shit
July 28th, 2010 at 4:14 am
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I agree with 2xtream. This is not about cures. We have not cured any major disease since polio. Lets face it. Anything that is not patented gets **** pooped by the Doctors which are trained by the AMA. Which I might add are on also on the board of directors for the pharmaceutical companies… Hummm.. No wonder those cheap cures like vitamin C, ozone Autohemotherapy and H202 are called infective. They work!!
July 30th, 2010 at 11:09 am
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Acupuncture has been studied
And the funny thing is, it does not matter where you put the needles in. The effects are the same.
In other words. It helps in many cases, but those “special acupunture spots” are bullshit.
Its probably mostly a placebo effect anyway
August 2nd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
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Flirmy,
How are they “snake-oil salesmen” if it’s FREE? Much of modern medicine including chemotherapy is just as effective as “snake-oil”. Research the facts.
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:11 pm
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From the very first image of this clip, I said to myself, “Oh, ****.” This is really alarming.