Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets
by mytailorisrich on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:09PM
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Traditional medicine includes the use of medicinal plants, which usually turn out to have actual properties.
“usually” is a very dangerous word.
It hides all the times these plants had no effect or a negative effect.
Either these plants you speak of are effective and their efficacy can be demonstrated repeatedly using trials or they’re not and someone is selling superstition.
That’s still a choice between medicine and not medicine.
Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets
by mytailorisrich on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:06AM
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Things are of course not black and white...
The people peddling this stuff either either know it doesn’t work or they have no idea if it works or even harms their patients.
They’re charlatans and it’s one driver for extinction worldwide.
It’s the same kind of pernicious, regressive meme as the western “wellness” industry and we should all be scared of it.