I think there was some big money pushed at some folk remedies but so few came positive that the money has dried up for now. There are a few cases (like the baldness cure in Europe) that come from alternative sources that were standardized and overcharged.
I generally agree that good cures/care rise from the heap in . There is also the very real and far more destructive influence of the mis-use and overuse of good science and "good cures". The quacks are relatively harmless (and I would argue a distraction) compared to the damage of bad care and misapplied care of drugs/therapies/cures that do work in the right conditions. And those errors are not simply the inevitables ones because of our normal limits, I am talking about the default economic thinking in big medicine that ANY care we can justify is OK (which is why the economics create the errors of overuse and misuse--there are fundamental flaws rooted in the economics of the US delivery system).
Jim
Jim (original):
>I am not defending "quackery" at all but it costs money to do
>research and clinical trials so you do not see that much
>"alternative" trials.
If there really were an untapped trove of "cures" in the alternative armamentarium, wouldn't the drug industry be all over them, trying to standardize, patent, and overcharge?
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