Alternative Medicine Goes Mainstream

Posted on August 30, 2009
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More than a third of all Americans have used unconventional therapies and herbal remedies even though they have not proved to be safe or effective. (June 7)

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18 Responses to “Alternative Medicine Goes Mainstream”

  1. mattwion on June 7th, 2009 4:44 pm

    Extremely interesting. Ever since research on the Placebo effect started being seriously studied, we have known how potent the mind, in particular our belief in the healer, is in helping cure the body.

    These alterative methods can certainly help … if the people believe it can!

    But I have to agree that we cannot use this as a “replacement” for conventional treatment … might make a very fine “supplement” though!

  2. abarzilai664 on June 7th, 2009 4:46 pm

    More research should be done, though one can see the emotional benefits of alt. medcine. Wonder how the Atheist Mutawa will think of this :)

  3. shenmueryu on June 7th, 2009 4:52 pm

    Kathy Allen Shut the FUCK UP! whichever pharma company has you under their thumb rest assured the side effects are much worse than what this tradiational treatment does. Cunt

  4. moviedude22 on June 7th, 2009 4:57 pm

    very nicely said!!! except for the cunt part, of course. lol.

  5. moviedude22 on June 7th, 2009 5:00 pm

    BEWARE! 00:26 Nurse Hachet in the pink PJ’s??? By far has got to be the most HOMELIEST lookin’ broad this side of the ER. My GAWD!!!!

  6. phantomspellchecker on June 7th, 2009 5:25 pm

    cunt cunt cunt

  7. moviedude22 on June 7th, 2009 5:29 pm

    107 yrs old and yet still not grown up, huh…

  8. 3star2nr on June 7th, 2009 5:43 pm

    if they did that shit around me id fucking pistol whip them

  9. AlexanderPimm on June 7th, 2009 5:50 pm

    yeh western medicine claims that the natural methods and old ways are not proven, however the western minded practitioners of medicine have never tested them, and they refuse to test them because they want ot keep making drugs they can charge enormous amounts of money for that might actually kill you. Acupuncture was rejecting simply because it would defy the western medicine notion of how the nervous system works. no one wanted to challenge it they just arbitrarily decided it was no good

  10. Flirmy on June 7th, 2009 6:01 pm

    snake-oil salesmen preying on gullible people

  11. totodyal on June 7th, 2009 6:09 pm

    root doctors FTW!

  12. PerfectionObsessive on June 7th, 2009 6:14 pm

    A cheap form of placebo

  13. 2xtream on June 7th, 2009 7:58 pm

    It does not pay to cure cancer or any disease. It pays much better to manage the disease for years rather then cure it. Why waist Billions of dollars in curing a sickness when you can milk billions from the sheep. Cancer along with most all disease including AIDs has had a cure for many years. All it takes is a little study but many people don’t have time to study because there to busy on their Xbox.

  14. lrmis11111 on June 7th, 2009 8:13 pm

    OK she can walk around my bed doing the reiki thing but I am afraid it only works if she is below thirty and cute and naked. Only then will I relax.

  15. BinkieMcFartnuggets on June 8th, 2009 1:42 am

    They said those Kinoki foot pads would get rid of my scalp boils!

  16. FuzzyDuck on June 8th, 2009 2:20 am

    From the very first image of this clip, I said to myself, “Oh, fuck.” This is really alarming.

  17. daimyophoenix on June 8th, 2009 3:25 am

    Flirmy,
    How are they “snake-oil salesmen” if it’s FREE? Much of modern medicine including chemotherapy is just as effective as “snake-oil”. Research the facts.

  18. todoke on June 8th, 2009 12:27 pm

    Acupuncture has been studied
    And the funny thing is, it does not matter where you put the needles in. The effects are the same.
    In other words. It helps in many cases, but those “special acupunture spots” are bullshit.
    Its probably mostly a placebo effect anyway

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