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21st Century Poet

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21. Quackery is everywhere.

Sat Mar 12, 2016, 01:14 PM

Mar 2016

On the contrary, quackery in the 21st century is more widespread than ever before. Traditional Chinese Medicine used to be confined to China. Now it's everywhere. Even serious colleges have courses about it. And the number of homeopathic clinics worldwide is rising. And so are patients going to them, because a homeopathic doctor talks to you for ages and makes you feel better about yourself unlike a medical doctor on a 24-hour backbreaking shift for whom you are just a number.

There are several reasons for the spread: the internet, people's concern about the medical industry, globalisation (it can spread good ideas as well as bad), 'back to nature' movements so loved by city-dwelling, well-to-do vegetarians and the like, and so on.

Assuming that a person of reasonable prudence would think just the same way you do is very self-centric. Did you know that a high percentage of Dutch women prefer to give birth at home because they think it's better than doing so in a hospital?

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Another child dead from quackery [View all] SidDithers Mar 2016 OP

They do indeed mcar Mar 2016 #1

Unfortunately that's their right Iliyah Mar 2016 #2

Children have special legal protection bhikkhu Mar 2016 #3

The parents did not kill the child. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #5

They are responsible for the child's death. Their negligence and wilfull ignorance are to blame. cleanhippie Mar 2016 #6

Ignorance is not a crime. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #8

If they we're concerned with the child's help, they would have taken him to an actual Doctor. cleanhippie Mar 2016 #11

Don't assume that people everywhere react to situations the same way you do. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #14

No. Negligence doing something that they COLGATE4 Mar 2016 #18

Quackery is everywhere. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #21

As an experienced lawyer I'm just telling you what the law COLGATE4 Mar 2016 #24

I will defer 100% to your knowledge of what tort law would call for here. But is that standard stevenleser Mar 2016 #38

If they are charged with Negligent Homicide then the COLGATE4 Mar 2016 #41

Say I leave a loaded gun on my daughter's nightstand before bed NickB79 Mar 2016 #34

Nope, and it is a depraved point of view that it is anyone's "right" tabasco Mar 2016 #9

What does 'withhold' mean? 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #16

The parents unquestionably have the right to believe COLGATE4 Mar 2016 #17

Its their right to kill their child through neglect, to withhold medical care? Bullshit... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #26

Oh, dear, what idiotic parents. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #4

It's happening for frequently in present times. Iliyah Mar 2016 #7

To put people in jail you need evidence of crime. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #10

Stupid decisions that affect the parents is one thing. hobbit709 Mar 2016 #15

The boy was not neglected. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #19

Wrong. Failure to seek MEDICAL treatment is chargeable. hobbit709 Mar 2016 #20

I doubt it. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #22

Parents have been prosecuted in the United States for failing to send their kids... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #30

Through negligence, yes 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #32

In this age of being able to access accurate information on all sorts of subjects... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #33

This is the age of ignorance. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #35

This is hard... I am disgusted with the parents mountain grammy Mar 2016 #12

These parents ARE quacks in it for the money Nevernose Mar 2016 #37

The entire clinic staff should be in jail! Omaha Steve Mar 2016 #13

Hard to see how that would happen 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #23

Uhm, it says, on their archived webpage that they provide "health care"... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #25

'Health care' can mean different things to different people. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #28

Perhaps the term "health care" should be protected, similar to how some job titles... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #29

You CAN protect the term 'health care' 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #31

Do they have a medical license and certification to use maple syrup for medicine? Omaha Steve Mar 2016 #36

Licences are only needed for medicinal prescriptions. 21st Century Poet Mar 2016 #39

Thankfully, the parents are being prosecuted, hopefully they will spend a long time in jail... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #27

Ozone therapy? Seriously how is that not illegal? Rex Mar 2016 #40