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Thread Starter Re: A bitter fight over who can be called 'doctor'

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Originally Posted by Summerwind View Post
I couldn't agree with you less. If you compare the overall success rates of naturopathy to "true medicine" and include all the pharma mistakes, all the infections that are introduced in hospitals and doctors' offices (ones that kill/infirm people who wouldn't have died if they hadn't gotten the infections from said sources), and all the misdiagnosies; I doubt that you'd find the success/failure rate to be dramaticallly different from one to the other.
The difference is that modern medicine is based on a series of proven tests. Naturopathy is unproven non-science. Malpractice within the western/modern medical community is well-known, and there's no dispute of that, but the fact that there are proven positive effects of modern medicine and there isn't any on the other side should be enough.
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