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Originally Posted by mikhail  Yea that was chairman maos whole thing with acupuncture.I think its important to keep alternative and regular medicine seperate i worry they take advantage of people when they are at their most vunerable. |
That's a valid concern.
My theory is, kinda, I know there are a lot of uneducated people in the world, a lot of uneducated and
uninsured people in the US, mostly poor.
In a way, it's their choice. If people want to rip them off and they're stupid enough to fall for it, oh well. This is a capitalist society, after all. We can't tell people that they aren't allowed to market a product or service, even when we know it's bogus. We can regulate the claims they're allowed to make, to some extent... but we can't prevent unethical people from peddling "miracle fat-burning diets", "herbal liver purification kits", "hair loss prevention treatments" made of spirulina and nettle, and god knows what else, any more than we can prevent gullible people from buying such things.
But to allow these charlatans to call themselves doctors.
At that point, the game is rigged, in favor of the scam artists.
It's no longer the dumb people's fault because they fell for it.
It's cheating.