Anti-woo commentators are a bunch of smug and condescending...

[sabrina 1]

362. I can give you links to the 'other side' also. Choosing a few devastating failures of science such

as Thalidimide or DES eg, doesn't necessarily negate all the positives of science. I COULD do what you are doing and 'use' the faiulres to claim that ALL science is bad but that would be denying reality wouldn't it?

I could claim that science 'pollutes collective knowledge and wisdom' by showing you actual victims of science. But that would be a false claim. Just as your picking out some individual failures to prove that all homeopathic practices are 'evil' is just plain nonsense.

You SAY you have faith in science and 'peer review' yet you demonstrate that this is far from an accurate claim by pikcing and choosing a few individual failures which can easily be attributed to the same danger of 'belief' systems that afflict both aspects of this issue.

On both sides of this issue there are extremes, as your links AND the horrific tragedies resulting from a 'belief' in science have resulted in.

There IS a 'happy medium' which is where people like me prefer to reside in. When Science told my family that my father had no scientific hope of surviving the stomach cancer he was diagnosed with, we refused to accept that. 'Where there is life there is hope'. He was declared dead by the world of Medical Science. When loved ones receive that kind of diagnosis, human natur kicks in and looks outside the world of Medical Science,

If you think that people have no right to do that, AFTER the world of your Science delares that there is nothing further that can be done, then I could not disagree more.

Whatever works, whatever keeps someone alive, hopeful and refusing to give up is fine by me, whether it is Science or althernative medicine. YOU have no right to tell ME I should not turn to other possible resources AFTER the world of Science has said 'there is no hope'. No way!