I've encounted this kind of thinking
over and over, and really, people should know better.
Let's take a very non-controversial way this belief of Jame's R's is irrational.
Many alternative medicine treatments are not patentable. It costs millions of dollars to pass through the FDA processes and no pharmaceutical company is going to invest in that process and in the marketing of an alternative medicine product that any other company can immediately start making.
Pharmaceutical companies do not want, for example, herbal remedies to be taken seriously and there is a reason they are behind many of the current restriction legislations coming into force in the US and Europe in relation to herbal medicines.
They are products that compete with theirs.
The educated, rational class in both Europe and the US are not quite in contact with reality, somehow thinking that industry is guided by the scientific method in the production of medicine.
”Originally Posted by Pineal
If the alternative medicine is supported by conventional scientific research, should we post about it in another forum?
James R. - If it's supported by scientific research then it's probably standard medicine rather than alternative medicine.
over and over, and really, people should know better.
Let's take a very non-controversial way this belief of Jame's R's is irrational.
Many alternative medicine treatments are not patentable. It costs millions of dollars to pass through the FDA processes and no pharmaceutical company is going to invest in that process and in the marketing of an alternative medicine product that any other company can immediately start making.
Pharmaceutical companies do not want, for example, herbal remedies to be taken seriously and there is a reason they are behind many of the current restriction legislations coming into force in the US and Europe in relation to herbal medicines.
They are products that compete with theirs.
The educated, rational class in both Europe and the US are not quite in contact with reality, somehow thinking that industry is guided by the scientific method in the production of medicine.