Mesoamerican healers

Abstract:

As a nation, we spend billions of dollars on unproven nostrums, nonexistent ‘‘energies,’’and various therapeutic touches and massages. The Federal Drug Administration has been rendered impotent by the thinly disguised subterfuge of labeling these substances as ‘‘food supplements.’’These remedies are legitimized by pseudoscientific claims for ‘‘quantum healing’’or ‘‘hydrinos,’’or by ultra-relativistic postmodernist claims that ‘‘all theories are equally valid’’or that scientific evidence is not relevant because ‘‘there are different ways of knowing.’’The result is that ‘‘natural’’or ‘‘alternative’’methods and remedies are held to be superior to those of Western biomedicine, which is accused of being impersonal and reductionist. This has led to wasting billions of dollars on ineffective remedies, severe diseases not being treated until it is too late, and unforeseen adverse drug interactions. On the other hand, the attitude of …

Año de publicación:

2001

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