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- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!tomca
- From: tomca@microsoft.com (Tom B. Carey)
- Subject: Re: RFD Alternative Medicine - need definition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.164554.24623@microsoft.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:45:54 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <Bx3y2o.4r6@ssr.com> <546@ulogic.UUCP> <17472@pitt.UUCP>
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- In article <17472@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >>
- >I started this, and I am a medical person. Many of us are getting
- >very weary of all the alternative medicine advice that is getting
- >posted to sci.med, and tired of combatting it all the time. People
- >query sci.med and get answered by a bunch of quacks. I'd like a
- >newsgroup where they can go and quit bothering us, frankly. There
- >is a real danger that the doctors are going to leave sci.med due to
- >this sort of thing, (among others) and then the quacks will have
- >sci.med as their main newsgroup.
-
- Just to note another point of view; I've found the discussions of
- Homeopathy, Chinese medicine, and other alternative systems very
- interesting. Too often apologists for "alternative medicine" are
- not confronted by persons with a grounding in the scientific
- tradition, and are able to pass off a load of pseudo-scientific piffle
- to a credulous audience. The only time I've seen this kind of dialog
- is on sci.med, and I'll be sorry to see it go!
-