i just waited to see the final result of the head to head section (1) in the times before i wrote about this. anyway the results are in... 72% of voters on the poll want alternative medicine to be included in the health system (2). if you read the comments section underneath you'll see that a lot of the pro alt. medicine commenter's didn't bother to read the anti side as a lot of the comments are along the lines of ''i tried it and i subsequently felt better so it must work'' testimonials and anecdotes. the anti guy (can't find his name at the mo, sites having a flip out) covered this and cited the placebo effect as the main reason people think alt. medicine works. that's probably true in the case of pain, but obviously one of the other reasons is far more mundane crap thinking and correlative fallacies.
my son had a stomach bug, i gave him some alternative remedy, he got better so the alt. remedy worked. this is a (paraphrased) letter i read in the times months ago. it obviously didn't occur to this woman that stomach bugs aren't exactly a chronic illness and that the things generally clears up by itself.
(1)nice to see the times get something that isn't suffixed by the P (premium, i.e subscription), even the freaking letters page is premium.
(2)the question ''Should alternative medicine be integrated into the health system?" really should read ''why should alternative medicine be integrated into the health system?'' the original question makes it sound that alt. medicine was already proven. really annoying
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Well said.
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