How Scientific is Modern Medicine?

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How Scientific Is Modern Medicine?

By Dana Ullman, North Atlantic Books. Posted December 3, 2007.

 

A new book on homeopathy challenges conventional medicine, which touts

itself as scientific even though it is largely run by businessmen, not doctors.

 

 

The following is an excerpt from The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous

People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, by Dana Ullman.

 

Conventional medicine adherents have consistently asserted that its methods

are scientifically verified, and they have ridiculed other methods that are

suggested to have therapeutic or curative effects. In fact, conventional

physicians have consistently worked to disallow competitors, even viciously

attacking those in their own profession who have questioned conventional

treatments or provided alternative modalities.

 

And yet, strangely enough, whatever has been in vogue in conventional medicine

in one decade has been declared ineffective, dangerous, and sometimes barbaric

in the ensuing decades. Surprisingly, despite this pattern in history,

proponents and defenders of " scientific medicine " tend to have little or no

humility, continually asserting that today's cure is truly effective.

 

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