Re: Quackery - Significant difference between Alt Med and Scientific Med

I have a few reservations regarding your comments:

Scientific medicine continually gathers statistical evidence on the effectiveness of treatments, I know because I have collected and analyzed such data. If a particular treatment is found to be ineffective, dangerous, and/or a better treatment is discovered, the old is discarded. Is there a similar mechanism for ongoing analysis and quality improvement in alternative medicine? Are nationally recognized "standards of care" devoloped by professional organizatons? Are there major universities and medical centers doing research and gathering evidence for the efficacy and safety of alternative medicine treatments - NO !!! Alt med holds on to their scientifically implausible treatments religiously and without waivering.

What "scientific" medicine are you refering to? Allopathic/convential?  What is "Alt"/Alternative medicine?  I believe in "Natural" medicine, nature has given us all the cures we need to be healthy and based on this regard,  to me Alt medicine is allopathic medicine.  There are many in universities doing research on natural time proven cures, but unfortunately the profits are in patented drugs because that is where most of the money is being directed towards.  Isn't strange how drugs are abandoned for new and improved ones once the patent ends?  My guess is that scientific medicine will never find cures for any diseases.  Do you know of any diseases that have been forever cured by a patented medicine? 

Comparison to religion is well founded; all is accepted on trust and faith without any substantial supporting evidence. It's largely authenticated by dubious anecdotal testimonials that cannot be verified by actual documented medical evidence. Purveyors are always personable and invariably have a remarkable ability to soothe and persuade the gullible Have you examined real before & after medical consultations, X-Rays or pathology reports for these “miracle” cures? A notable physician turned alt med promoter refuses to publically reveal her acual pathology diagnosis on file at Loma Linda University Medical Center to validate her claim that she self-treated her supposed breast tumor.

You are not only against ancient cures but also against ancient religion too? Unlike myself who believes in natural medicine which is ageless, and I have faith in my very old time religion too.  So many shout "Out with the old and in with the new!"  I wonder who is the real gullible.  I watch those patented drug comercials on tv and laugh at them; they try to be so personable and do their best to soothe and persuade the gullible.  Your observations and mine seem to be similar but on diferent regards.  I dont like secrets in medicine either, and I refer to all types of medicine and natural cures too.

Many people who seek alt med have chronic conditions with fluctuating symptomology or self limiting conditions that will resolve whether they are treated or not. The perception of successful treatment is hallow, most likely resulting largely from the “placebo effect”.

Same can be said about those who go thru the allopathic medicine, though the allopathic drugs do much more harm.