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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: evidence for homeopathy - who pays?
- Message-ID: <17915@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 00:55:47 GMT
- References: <ByrvAA.90G@ssr.com> <Bz0qrC.829@news.udel.edu> <1992Dec14.233525.5441@island.COM>
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- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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- In article <1992Dec14.233525.5441@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
- >This is a distorted explanation of what happened. In fact, the AMA was
- >launched for the purpose of driving the homeopaths out of business. They
- >succeeded in this endeavor by conning the government into accepting
- >the Johns Hopkins medical school as *the* model, by which all other
- >schools had to measure up, or lose funding. One by one, the homeopathic
- >schools closed down, until there were none left.
-
- This is a really distorted view of what happened. First, the government
- didn't fund medical schools until after world war II, long after
- homeopathy had died out almost. The Johns Hopkins model was for
- medical schools, not homeopathy schools. It had nothing to do with
- funding but with accreditation.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
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