I keep getting told woo is "harmless..."

[Big Blue Marble]

54. You seemed confused with how often medical treatments applied as intended maim and kill.

There are so called alternative treatments that do work. As we speak, in my city,
there are research trials of an alternative treatment for cancer patients on going
in a major cancer center. This method of healing is being applied concurrently with
standard protocols of treatment. This method has successfully helped patients. No
one is being maimed or killed.

The grants this major cancer center has received for this research have been expanded
due to the success so far. Ask the patients. They will tell you this use or resources and
time have not been wasted. The physicians do not think it is wasted either.

On another note, very little that medicine offers to day can cure either. Mainstream
medicine more often than not manages symptoms with drugs, sometimes well and
sometimes not so well.

Despite your bias, there are alternatives methods that work and there are those
that do not. The same can be said of the medical industrial complex. Smart people
will know when to use both to support their health.