Spacehuman

One suicide. One heart attack. One murder. Zero reason to connect them, but it makes sense that irrational people who support 'alternative' medicine (i.e. people 500 years behind modern science) would do so.

Stoph777

Apparently the story continues as more alternative medicine docs are murdered. Not sounding so irrational now is it?

Spacehuman

It still sounds irrational. People die. People are sometimes murdered. That doesn't imply a conspiracy to silence a bunch of quacks who talk nonsense and use gibberish to sell snake oil bullshit to middle aged women.

Stoph777

I'm not clear how a shotgun blast to the chest and body found in the river equals a suicide.... But what I do know is that our "modern science" healthcare as you call it is being dictated by pharmaceutical companies profits, and the AMA, which is also heavily influenced by big pharma. I've worked in healthcare in the U.S. for 30yrs and can attest that it's about money, not so much about healing people.

Spacehuman

I'm not clear how a shotgun blast to the chest and body found in the river equals a suicide

They can tell it was from point blank range and they found the gun next to him.

Regardless of the evils caused by the profit motive in modern medicine, the answer is not to replace modern science with re-branded ideas about healing from the pre-scientific age - which is what most 'alternative medicine' boils down to.

Flesh_Mechanic

Ehhh. I don't think these are connected. But the human brain equates correlation to causation. So yeah. Plus people are dumb.

I don't see alternative medicine as bad, necessarily. I use it before/in conjunction with "real" medicine. I also think there is so much money in discrediting unpatentable medicines that it only makes sense for people to tell me with conviction that taking oregano oil for tonsillitis is bad, or that using a silver based ointment instead of polysporin is a dumb thing to do.

Why would they "allow" me to buy a product that has two unpatentable medicinal ingredients? That also don't contribute to antibiotic resistance in any way?