So asking someone who says “I practice evidence-based naturopathy” what exactly that means and what evidence they use isn’t being human?! Claiming that those of us in medicine are just suppressing symptoms and ignoring the “real” cause of disease is ok, but asking her to defend those accusations isn’t? I’m sorry, but I’m not buying the “Why you gotta be so mean” line here. False beliefs in medicine hurt and kill real people, and challenging them is a good thing.
As for your precis of the history of medicine in the 20th century, it doesn’t resemble the history I am familiar with. Here are a couple of visual reminders of what those “pills and surgeries” and the rest of science-based medicine (including better sanitation, nutrition, exercise, and most of the other things naturopaths try to claim as their ideas) have done for humanity. (Apparently, inserting these as images screws up the formatting of the whole page, so I’ll trust everyone to follow the links to the source instead : -)
So asking someone who says “I practice evidence-based naturopathy” what exactly that means and what evidence they use isn’t being human?! Claiming that those of us in medicine are just suppressing symptoms and ignoring the “real” cause of disease is ok, but asking her to defend those accusations isn’t? I’m sorry, but I’m not buying the “Why you gotta be so mean” line here. False beliefs in medicine hurt and kill real people, and challenging them is a good thing.
As for your precis of the history of medicine in the 20th century, it doesn’t resemble the history I am familiar with. Here are a couple of visual reminders of what those “pills and surgeries” and the rest of science-based medicine (including better sanitation, nutrition, exercise, and most of the other things naturopaths try to claim as their ideas) have done for humanity.