[MPWG] Reply to Rob Wolkow MD

[Wolkow, Robert]

You seem to imply that scientific method is of little or no value and that
to understand the world we should rely on what has come before.If you really
believe that clinical trials provide no useful information but the fact that
millions of people believe that tiger and bear parts (just as one example)
are curative means it must be truly of benefit than there is little to
discuss further. Just as it is true, as you say, that orthodox medicine does
not have all the cures and all the right answers and people die because
there is no cure, it is also true that the same limitations apply to natural
products. I have been to places where traditional medicines are used
exclusively and healthy octagenarians were far and few between.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ivor Hughes [mailto:Herbworks1 at xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:43 AM
To: MPWG at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject: [MPWG] Reply to Rob Wolkow MD 


I really must point out to Dr Wolkow that herbal medicine  is backed by 
many  recorded centuries ... Empiric knowledge in this respect is 
superior to scientific knowledge. If only for the reason that the usage 
has survived the march of the generations ... that which is of no use is 
abandoned. We do not need scientists to tell people something that every 
mother used to know.

If we wish to talk of quackery and guessing games and outright fraud 
then  we only have to point to the spurious clinical trials and the 
horrendous proven death toll from orthodoxy. Millions of deaths on an 
annual basis. Not one of the synthetics is safe.  The proof of that may 
be found in any dispensatory or extra pharmacopoeia.

Couple that with the diagnostic record of most of the major teaching 
hospitals and you will see that it is no better than tossing a coin 
..... the rate is 49% correct on autopsy (Shudder)

We are currently facing a total ecological disaster (Climate change) 
this disaster has been achieved in less than 300 years and it has been 
led by science.  What is happening on a global scale is reflected in our 
specie ....  As Winston Churchill said " You can fool some of the people 
some of the time, but one cannot fool all the people, all of the time "  
That is why in developed nations informed people spend more on 
traditional medicine than they do on the dangerous scientific synthetics.

Come and sit with me on a daily basis Dr Wolkow  .... I will show you a 
stream of people who have been through the orthodox medicine mill ..... 
until they are finally abandoned  (keep taking the pills) and sentenced 
to a rapidly declining health and often a painful death, if orthodox 
procedures are followed .....

Ivor Hughes
www.herbdatanz.com



 


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