Are We Being Hoodwinked by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst?
megnificent wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
In the Daily Mail, under a similar title, these two stooges state:
“And yet it is only comparatively recently that they have developed an approach that allows them to separate the effective from the ineffective, and the safe from the dangerous.”
Are you really serious about this!?! There is no way that conventional medicine has proven that its standards prevent inneffective or dangerous drugs and procedures from coming to market! Look at Ezetimibe, Vioxx, many implants, surgical techniques and recently simple cough syrups and lets not forget thalidomide. These were all “vetted” by double blind studies and the standards that these two stooges are promoting. The danger from these drugs has in hind site unfortunately been proven. The danger from alternatives is opinion.
It is estimated that four per cent of all hospital beds in the UK are taken up with patients who have had bad effects from conventional medical treatment and drugs. […]
Read the rest of this great post here