“This is a caricature of medical science and science in general.”
Couldn’t agree more... If his thesis was correct we’d still be practicing alchemy and bleeding people.
With regard to medicine there’s thousands of people practicing and millions using “alternative medicine” from acupuncture to homeopathy to herbal treatments to shamanism to prayer to meditation and so on.
The reason these techniques are not as widely accepted as “mainstream” medicine is because they don’t work - at least for the vast majority of people. Were any to prove consistently effective, believe me, they would quickly gain widespread acceptance and use.
You don’t think meditation works in a beneficial way.
The reason these techniques are not as widely accepted as “mainstream” medicine is because they don’t work - at least for the vast majority of people. Were any to prove consistently effective, believe me, they would quickly gain widespread acceptance and use.
The placebo effect is a real phenomenon, and most likely accounts for the (very) limited success of those "alternative" medicines. Whenever I see someone urging people to reject evidence-based science and embrace "alternative" medicine developed on the basis of ... well, I don't know, but it makes me cringe and despair for the state of scientific education these days. I'm sure those same people disparaging the use of scientific based medicine are equally in favor of rejecting evidence if they ever get arrested and have to be put on trial...