Meditation 'works just as well as anti-depressants'

[Bluenorthwest]

41. I was a close up witness to the dawn of the AIDS crisis and many do

tell those patients what to do, the last few days on DU are filled with threads that I see as retrospective whining about what dying people did to help themselves when 'medical science' was caught unprepared, deeply frightened and unable to act in any meaningful way for years.
The folks who attack acupuncture and herbal medications and meditation are saying those people should not have used those treatments, instead of using cannabis they should have vomited until they died, they should not have used 'woo' to manage pain, nor stress nor to address other symptoms as much as possible.
Medical Science, when AIDS struck, had only recently stopped claiming that being gay was itself a disease to be treated, so they had no idea how to even speak to gay people. They had indulged in many years of bigoted fakery posing as 'the Best Science' and when history called them to action, they were unable to act because they had remained ignorant, believed bullshit and many of them were soaked in prejudice.
To me, Bane, all of the 'I hate any Medicine that is not from Big Science' threads are all telling the sick and dying what to do, for almost each subject that is brought up, I think of a name and a face and the relief brought by alternative treatment when the mainstream of medicine had nothing to offer, no ideas, no treatments and very often simply wanted the mystery contagion out of their offices as soon as possible.
The 'anti woo' people at that time were part of an establishment that mostly still held that homosexuality is a disorder. They recommended shock therapy, to 'cure the gay' and that was the state of the science.
The same folks who think they look wise and smart look dewy, inexperienced and naïve. Which is a way of saying they seem ignorant of life as it really functions.