Re: Is Colonic Irrigation "Dr. Feelgood quackery"?
The article is written by someone who is heavily biased. Like everything else on NCAHF site, or like everything else on Quackwatch, Quackfiles, Ratbags and similar sites.
Those sites are created by people who are heavily biased against just about any and every form of alternative medicine (CAM ... they call it sCAM).
They have only one interst when making similar sites:
To scare people away from any alt med option (and to make them believe that MD is the only good answer), and to present Alternative Medicine as something that is:
- dangerous
- fraud, quackery, snake oil
- of no therapeutic value
- not better then placebo (as if achieving placebo effect is something bad and something that should not be used)
- questionable
- stupid
Can you trust to their judgement?
Absolutely No.
Most of them writing articles, have never tried any of those therapies themselves, so their judgement is entirely based upon the judgement of people who "researched" therapies 30 or 50 years ago, experts who concluded that it is of no value.
They never question motives, why would somene have interest in disproving a therapy? Who is that person? Background?
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
If we luck good designed studies that prove safety and effectiveness of some therapy, it is not a proof that the therapy is unsafe and ineffective, is it?
Well, that is exactly what they are trying to make people believe. They don't have the conclusive proof against.
Spirit