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Originally Posted by stopdog
My point is to show that science is wrong a lot of the time - regardless of papers and juries and so on. Medicine has killed a lot of people and maimed a lot of others with their "science" and they keep on doing it even where some people are helped by it. And some people are neither harmed nor helped.
Western Medicine and its studies and drugs are driven by money. It happens at times where the purported cure will kill quicker than the disease.
Studies are paid for by those with an interest in keeping the drugging/medical machine as it is. Not in healing.
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Those are absolutely valid critiques of certain aspects of science and medicine. But claiming that we can't know homeopathy is ******** is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Skepticism is good. Refusing to believe anything doesn't help anyone.
Things like megadosing vitamin C seem to not actually do much good for cancer, but I would not say that with any degree of certainty.
Things like apple cider vinegar are, imo, stupid. But, once again, there's little that can be said with absolute certainty. (Though one must also consider potential risks, not all of these treatments are harmless)
The fact that homeopathy doesn't work is something that can be said with as close to certainty as we can get.
Some studies are driven by money. A lot are done in academia by research scientists who are not funded by drug companies and actually want to help people. Not to say that financial interests don't still exert some indirect influence. It sets conventions and blind spots for academic researchers.
Also medicine as a research field is not the same as medicine that happens in a doctor's office, and is also not the same as the more basic or even translational research that occurs in academic institutions. They're all interconnected, but they're also different worlds.