Scientific American: Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More

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109. Seriously?

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In addition, your off-hand use of "allopathic," an overwhelmingly well-known pejorative, indicates a certain lack of effort regarding your understanding of science and actual medicine. This is entirely consistent with (and frequently observed with) alt-med and pseudoscientific thinking. This in turn indicates that you've embraced the tropes of pseudoscience without seriously considering their meaning.

This is further made clear every time you invoke "the Guardians of Orthodoxy" or the "bellowing" that follows the goring of one's ox. "White-coat medicine" is also a passive-aggressive jab at actual medicine, by the way.

You certainly have given no indication that you view alt-med and actual medicine with equal skepticism, so if you hold yourself to be agnostic, you either need to reconsider what that term means or else re-examine the consistency with which you explore that agnosticism.

Further, you absolutely aren't agnostic about actual medicine, because you're probably vaccinated, you probably wash your hands now and then, you've probably undergone at least one medical procedure, and you probably know at least one person whose life has been saved by actual medicine. In contrast, you don't know anyone whose life has been saved by alt-med, nor does anyone else. If you pretend that actual medicine and alt-med are equally valid, then you're being flatly dishonest with yourself and with anyone who happens to listen.