Dr. Hall addresses Altie Claims

[Eos of the Eons]

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3067

Nutrition faddists claim that people who eat right won’t get sick. None of them can produce any evidence to support those claims. No alternative medicine has been scientifically shown to prevent disease or to cure it. If it had, it would have been incorporated into conventional medicine and would no longer be “alternative.”

Are these practitioners treating the underlying cause, or are they simply applying their one chosen tool to treat everything? Chiropractors treat every patient with chiropractic adjustments. What if a doctor used one treatment for everything? You have pneumonia? Here’s some penicillin. You have a broken leg? Here’s some penicillin. You have diabetes? Here’s some penicillin. Acupuncturists only know to stick needles in people. Homeopaths only know to give out ridiculously high dilutions that amount to nothing but water. Therapeutic touch practitioners only know to smooth out the wrinkles in imaginary energy fields. They are not trying to determine any underlying cause: they are just using one treatment indiscriminately.

They claim to treat the "whole person" holistically, but fail to identify real causes. They end up "treating" symptoms, which they accuse science based practitioners of doing. Isn't that called hypocrisy? They are taught a bunch of hooey philosophies, but can't be trusted with a single broken bone, nor do they have the slightest idea how to identify any microbe.

When has a naturopath, chiropractor, or homeopath developed anything that can be identified as a real medical breakthrough? With their philosophies, it's impossible.