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**usatramadolusa** · 02-12-2011, 03:37 PM

I have the good fortune of personally witnessing certain peoples' lives changed by these practices when so called "Western medicine" had said "that's about all we can do is give you this medication to deal with the pain" and so-forth. Actually brings a bit of a tear to my eye...For me that's all the "evidence" I need.

When conventional medicine cures someone, no one is surprised, though they may be delighted. When alternative medicine does so, it is trumpeted about precisely because it is rare. If we were to put together a score card on which kind of medicine is doing better, I know which side would be carrying more weight.

The fact that this kind of thing brings a tear to your eye literally makes me nauseous. So someone got better; are we also going to list all the numberless cases where alternative medicine failed to accomplish anything useful? No ... we would run the risk that kind of exposure to daylight might dispel our pleasant fantasies, wouldn't we.

02-12-2011, 03:37 PM	#36
usatramadolusa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	I have the good fortune of personally witnessing certain peoples' lives changed by these practices when so called "Western medicine" had said "that's about all we can do is give you this medication to deal with the pain" and so-forth. Actually brings a bit of a tear to my eye...For me that's all the "evidence" I need. When conventional medicine cures someone, no one is surprised, though they may be delighted. When alternative medicine does so, it is trumpeted about precisely because it is rare. If we were to put together a score card on which kind of medicine is doing better, I know which side would be carrying more weight. The fact that this kind of thing brings a tear to your eye literally makes me nauseous. So someone got better; are we also going to list all the numberless cases where alternative medicine failed to accomplish anything useful? No ... we would run the risk that kind of exposure to daylight might dispel our pleasant fantasies, wouldn't we.
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