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Monday, March 22, 2004That the public should apply different standards of expectation to alternative medicine than they do to conventional medicine is pure Luddism. It is to believe that natural is necessarily superior to synthetic, that the pre-industrial societies (from which come many alternative therapies) were intrinsically wiser than our own. The difference between cancer-sufferers who shun conventional medicine and the Luddites who took to smashing machines in the early industrial age is that today's non-believers in progress tend to be drawn from the higher social classes and they include, as we have said before, the heir to the throne. And it isn't just the royals. posted by Sydney on 3/22/2004 10:23:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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