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Mind Over Matter: Debunking Alternative Medicines
The New York Times ^ | July 1, 2013 | Abigail Zuger

Posted on 07/03/2013 12:49:19 PM PDT by EveningStar

When Dr. Paul A. Offit published “Autism’s False Prophets” in 2008, he elected to skip the usual round of book signings. His defense of childhood vaccinations so enraged some people who consider them a cause of autism that he was getting credible death threats.

Others might have chosen to flee the public arena after that, but not Dr. Offit, the chief of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, whose appetite for the good fight seems only to have grown. Over the last decade he has become a leading debunker of mass misconceptions surrounding infections and vaccines, and now he is taking on the entire field of alternative medicine, from acupuncture to vitamins.

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KEYWORDS: alternativemedicine; health; medicine; paulaoffit; pauloffit; scientificmedicine
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To: CodeToad
Why do you need vitamins if you aren’t eating just junk food?

Because the soil is no longer real...full of artificial chemicals and pesticides, so food crops are no longer chock full of the nutrients God made them with. Maybe if you buy organic grains and produce and things made with them, you won't need vitamins. But I take them as insurance.

81 posted on 07/04/2013 9:11:09 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: Kip Russell
I took an experimental drug (pazopanib) which shrunk the tumor by 2/3rds over the course of 3 months, and then had a partial nephrectomy (kidney removal) at the Cleveland Clinic. I had to get a partial because my other kidney, while otherwise healthy, was only 1/4 the normal size (born that way, had no idea until then).

Long story short: I'm now cancer-free, and going on a photo safari to South Africa in a month. Modern medicine works!

Great story!

82 posted on 07/04/2013 9:14:20 AM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: EveningStar

I still drink chicken soup and eat hot chili when I have a cold.


83 posted on 07/04/2013 9:18:04 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Beware YRip in the Space/Time Continuum)
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To: EveningStar

Ordinary sea water still seems to work the best at healing cuts. I once had a nasty cut on my knuckle that festered for weeks UNTIL I went swimming in the ocean. Within a short time it completely healed that wound.


84 posted on 07/04/2013 9:20:15 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Beware YRip in the Space/Time Continuum)
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