Arnoldo Budzynski: For alternative medicinal advice refer to : http://shop.myyog.com/ where you will find Herbal remedies and Ayurvedic treatments for health ailments.For herbs and benefits visit: http://www.herbalhimalaya.com/ , here you can find top herbs and their medicinal uses.
Madge Voice: Boy, this one brought the trolls out didn't it?Quackwatch? ROFL! Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch.com has been exposed as a Quack in court cases with a vested interest in promoting pharmaceuticals and misleading the public. His claims are ONLY against 'alternative health care' - using FRAUD science and FRAUD credentials to support his conflict-of-interest reporting.See: http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.htmlThe FDA?"The FDA 'protects' the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them.It isn't.What the FDA is doing and what the p! ublic thinks it is doing are as different as night and day." Dr. Herbert LeyFormer U.S. FDA CommissionerNow as to some revealing information about mainstream medicine, see my article:Modern Medicine: How Healing Illness became Managing Illnesshttp://www.tbyil.com/Managed_Illness.htmIt isn't what is taught in medical school or what the mainstream sycophants would have you believe, but it is hard to argue with facts and history.Some other good sites to look at:http://www.naturalnews.comhttp://www.mercola.comhttp://www.mnwelldir.orghttp://www.whale.tohttp://rain-tree.com/index.html (be sure to look at the wonderful rain forest plant database)http://www.natural-treatment.info/Though the mainstreamers will be quick to cry out about scientific studies and such, medical science today is largely bought and sold by the mainstream drug and medical industries.By and large mainstream drugs only manage symptoms and they often do that by forcing the body to act unnaturally without addres! sing root causes or actually healing anything. Over 95% of al! l approved medications have side effects and often those side effects often lead to other conditions requiring still more medications in a never ending cycle. Maybe that is because a good general rule is that it is not a good idea to ingest or inject anything that is not found in nature - including unnatural lab created compounds and synthetics and unique patentable isolates not found in nature without supporting synergistic compounds.As history has taught us over and over, the science of today often becomes the quackery of tomorrow. Meanwhile, mankind has developed for eons alongside natural plants, healing herbs, vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients - which mainstreamers would label as non-effective, dangerous and quackery. No one ever became ill due to a deficiency in pharmaceuticals. And I have to ask, exactly when did God and Nature become quacks and doctors and scientists become Gods?The managed-illness-for-profit maindstream model is a great one for p! rofit when your only marketplace is our bodies, but a horrible one for healing and humanity....Show more
Adrian Paraz: In addition to the excellent links Gary Y has provided, these blogs often deal with that very issue: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/http://skepchick.org/blog/And there's Ben Goldacre's Bad Science columns, which also often address alternative versus evidence-based medicine:http://www.badscience.net/====Edit:@Tony. The question does not ask for websites promoting alternative medicine. It asks fo websites to assist in the writing of an essay on alternative vs 'western' medicine. Providing links to websites that have arguments against alternative medicine is no more 'trolling' than providing links to websites promoting alternative medicine. There is no suggestion that the asker is looking for only one of the two.And shall we clear up the Quackwatch/Barret business once and for all?See the robust response from Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch to the smea! r campaign that has been waged against him:http://www.quackwatch.org/11! Ind/bolen.htmlhttp://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/negrete.htmlThe libel suits against Barrett were launched on behalf of that wicked old fraud, Hulda Clark.Clark wasn't a medical doctor, she was a a zoologist. who claimed cancer is caused by parasites and that she could cure it with her zapper.The way she worked was to diagnose the cancer herself, then claim to have cured it - so patients would believe themselves to be cured of a cancer they never had in the first place.She was run out of the US after she falsely diagnosed a Department of Health undercover agent with AIDS, telling her 'I can treat you here. It's a one minute test and it's all electronic'. She then told the agent she was 'full of the virus. And we will cure it in three minutes'.Take a look at this link. Included in this thorough debunking of Clark is the story of a couple who spent more than $30,000 in a desperate attempt to cure their child after Clark promised to "determine the true cause of the disease" and ! "clear this up completely." http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/...There is no actual evidence that she ever cured anyone with cancer or AIDS.She was a fraud and a charlatan exploiting the misery and desperation of vulnerable people to line her own pocketsClark claimed to be able to cure all cancers, and got very rich on the proceeds of her quackery. Note the past tense. Clark died a couple of months ago... have you guessed it yet ... yep, of cancer.I know which one out of her and Barrett I would rather trust....Show more
Isaias Badgley: Gary Y has got it all covered! However, I'd like to add the wikipedia article (link below). Very interesting especially this quote:"Alternative medicine is often based on the belief that a particular health regimen has efficacious effects even while there exists various bodies of evidence to contradict such a belief under the rigorous standards of evidence based medicine. In practice, alternative medicine encompass! es therapies with a historical or cultural, rather than a scientific, b! asis."Good luck. :)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicineedit: The discussion between lo_mcg and Tony I illustrates the type of reasoning alt med practitioners use when confronted by skeptics. Instead of answering the issues raised by a skeptic, they instead attack the skeptic, calling her a paid hack of big pharma, bringing up conspiracies between doctors to keep people sick, etc etc. I sincerely hope that your essay will look at both sides of the issue and I hope you see for yourself that alternative medicine is not an alternative to medicine. Good luck....Show more
Keneth Mailhot: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31190909http://www.healthinformation.com.au/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/http://www.quackwatch.com/http://www.quackometer.net/http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/http://crapbasedmedicine.wordpress.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackeryhttp://whatstheharm.net/------Edit: Tony - you have been told the tru! th about Stephen Barrett before - so now you are lying.To the asker - I hope this helps to demonstrate some of the issues regarding Alternative Medicine versus Western Medicine....Show more
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