George
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Post by George on Jul 4, 2009 8:57:48 GMT 10
An interesting resource debunking so-called "alternative medicine" and a whole host of other superstitious, conspiratorial, dangerous fruit-loopery: whatstheharm.net/index.html
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Post by indigo on Jul 5, 2009 6:37:53 GMT 10
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." — Henri Poincaré "The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is nearly 800,000 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251." [Null, G. & al. (2006, August). Death by Medicine. Life Extension Magazine. Retrieved 4 July 2009, from www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/aug2006_report_death_01.htm]"Imre Lakatos, for instance, points out that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at one point declared that Mendelian genetics was pseudoscientific and had its advocates, including well-established scientists such as Nikolai Vavilov, sent to Gulags, and that the "liberal Establishment of the West" denies freedom of speech to topics it regards as pseudoscience, particularly where they run up against social mores." [Pseudoscience. (2009, 30 June). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 4 July 2009, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience]
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