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**boltondd** · 02-12-2011, 02:54 PM

You put your faith in humorism, too? Or is a theory's age only a point in its favor if it comes from the Exotic OrientTM?

Way I see it, there's medicine that works and medicine which doesn't. It doesn't matter where it came from or how old it is; it can either be proven to work or it can't. When it comes to my health, I'll take things which can empirically demonstrate their efficacy, and when it comes to providing for the health care of others... there's something especially perverse and opportunistic about getting sick people's hopes pinned on approaches that have nothing to recommend them but their age and a satisfyingly mystical origin.

Refreshing. We definitely need people like you, Cobalt, who are quite prepared to dispel clouds of harmful mysticism, be they ever so aromatic.

02-12-2011, 02:54 PM	#33
boltondd Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	You put your faith in humorism, too? Or is a theory's age only a point in its favor if it comes from the Exotic OrientTM? Way I see it, there's medicine that works and medicine which doesn't. It doesn't matter where it came from or how old it is; it can either be proven to work or it can't. When it comes to my health, I'll take things which can empirically demonstrate their efficacy, and when it comes to providing for the health care of others... there's something especially perverse and opportunistic about getting sick people's hopes pinned on approaches that have nothing to recommend them but their age and a satisfyingly mystical origin. Refreshing. We definitely need people like you, Cobalt, who are quite prepared to dispel clouds of harmful mysticism, be they ever so aromatic.
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