NaturalNews: On Ebola, mainstream media, government and health authorities censoring natural cures

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118. Not that you'll read the link - but here's one refutation of your thesis.

...since the 1970s, Oriental Medicine has almost experienced some popularity in the West, although for different reasons. Once considered archaic and obsolete, Oriental Medicine has greatly benefited from the postmodern attitudes towards science and knowledge. This is because postmodernists consider the “truth” as being relative to one’s viewpoint or stance. They do not see science as a superior process of acquiring knowledge, but as a “belief system,” a “language game,” which does not give more access to truth than other conceptual constructs.

This attitude towards science has even achieved the status of academic orthodoxy in Liberal Arts and Humanities in the last decades. Many proponents of “alternative” medicine use this academic attitude to reject science as a method of determining the truth about health and treatments. Anti-science advocates believe that these notions offer a viewpoint that is “placed in stark contrast to the naive materialism that informs some scientific points of view.”

The proponents of unscientific medicines, however, do not realize that prior to the scientific revolution, medicine was some kind of “mass professional delusion,” as David Wootton has pointed out. Prescientific remedies, in general, did more harm than good. Wootton argues that patients sought help from physicians, not because of the efficacy of the ancient remedies, but out of desperation; because doing something was perceived as better than doing nothing.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/oriental-medicine-a-tall-tale-of-outdated-lore/

Bolding - mine.