The problem with both people who believe all new age hippy mumbo jumbo _and_ those that don't is that people are not able to think rationally and make up their own mind. They'd rather follow some belief system that others thought of.
The situation is worst whenever our health is concerned - science doesn't understand nearly enough to make statements like electricity is harmful or WiFi is harmful, yet scientists are under immense pressure to publish and the media is under pressure to grab attention. This combination produces tons of pseudoscientific garbage. You really have to actively try to avoid it.
As for other hippy mumbo jumbo, there's a lot of it that actually works but is ignored by western science. I have seen Reiki work fantastically and quite frankly I don't need some ignorant western Doctor to tell me it can't (aka I don't understand it so it can't work). I have seen it work, I don't need further proof.
Eastern medicine will only be accepted in the west once big pharma figures out how to make the big bucks off of it. Which is too bad because it complements western medicine in an almost ideal way.
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nikster @ Jul 21st 2007 11:55PM
The problem with both people who believe all new age hippy mumbo jumbo _and_ those that don't is that people are not able to think rationally and make up their own mind. They'd rather follow some belief system that others thought of.
The situation is worst whenever our health is concerned - science doesn't understand nearly enough to make statements like electricity is harmful or WiFi is harmful, yet scientists are under immense pressure to publish and the media is under pressure to grab attention. This combination produces tons of pseudoscientific garbage. You really have to actively try to avoid it.
As for other hippy mumbo jumbo, there's a lot of it that actually works but is ignored by western science. I have seen Reiki work fantastically and quite frankly I don't need some ignorant western Doctor to tell me it can't (aka I don't understand it so it can't work). I have seen it work, I don't need further proof.
Eastern medicine will only be accepted in the west once big pharma figures out how to make the big bucks off of it. Which is too bad because it complements western medicine in an almost ideal way.