Poo* advocates let patient die

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76. Woo Punching Found to be cool; Poo Punching judged abhorrent

OK, folks have had a jolly good time with this week's regularly scheduled session of Woo Punching, apparently a subdivision of Hippie Punching. Here's how it works. An OP cites an odd example of an alternative therapy approach that resulted in disaster, and everyone piles on to denigrate, disparage and condemn all alternative therapies as "Woo" -- the Devil's Own Treacherous Doing. It's a regular Inquisition, complete with rhetorical torches and pitchforks.

But let someone (moi) cite an odd example of Scientific Materialist Medicine gone awry -- as happens every day - and then add an obviously preposterously sweeping judgment for the sake of argumentantive contrast, and it sparks a Twisted Panties Party on an epic scale.

Woo (yin) punching remains popular; poo (yang) punching is verboten. Where else might one see this pattern playing out in the world?