Political blog Huffington Post is credulous of all kinds of woo-woo nonsense. The latest is on alternative remedies for flu (via Respectful Insolence):
The good news is that there are many alternative medicines, herbs, and treatments that can be quite effective in the fight against a wide variety of viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, to which mainstream high-tech Western medicine has little or nothing to offer. The bad news is that 99 percent of the doctors in our hospitals are not trained in these alternatives, and don’t have a clue about what to do when their pharmaceutical high-tech medicines fail to heal.
This kind of misinformation is a public health risk, possibly worse than anti-vaccination theories. Other mystical non-medicine propagated by the Huffpo are distant healing, detox quackery and the claim that antibiotics cause cancer.
Huffington Post is encouraging people to take actions that will jeopardise their health and possibly their life, all because of a misguided belief in alternative medicines and skepticism of western medicine.
When it comes to decisions about life-saving medicine, ignorance kills.
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Can I link you Daddy Dave?
of course, onepointsix. You don’t need to ask permission to link to someone.
I remember coming across a piece in Aussie lefty rag Overland to the same effect, that one couldn’t trust the pharmaceutical industry and that therefore immunisation was a crime, bla bla bla.
Hands up those who really care if a bunch of stupid lefties die as a result of idiotic quackery?