USA state recognizes quackery, n'pathy

[Eos of the Eons]

http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/2009/11/more_naturopathic_nonsense_in.php

Includes a long list of tidbits like this one:

2) The assertion that the body has the potential to heal itself is not a scientific one. When given "natural" support only, the body will die by the age of 45, probably of infectious diseases. Modern advances in medicine make long-life possible, not herbs and roots from a 2,000 year old playbook.

3) Saying "science" doesn't make it so. The call of "the healing power of nature at work" to be not magic, but good science, is ridiculous on its face....the human body is really good at succumbing to pathogens and injury, and the "natural" world is really good at killing us.

 

[TheDaver]

I read a whiny article that said "self taught" sCAM artists ought to get licenses too.

Hey. I, for one, personally think that’s awesome. I’m unemployed and broke at the moment. Hocking vials of tapwater at $15 a pop to a doesn’t sound too bad to me right now.

Survival Of The Fittest, they’re so deluded they deserve to be taken advantage of, and all that………

 

[Eos of the Eons]

Yeah, suckers born every minute, and two more to take each one of em. I'm gonna be broke a while too, and would love to shuckster people. Just watch out if one of em dies and their family comes after you.

 

[TheDaver]

Yeah. I was really shocked when I discovered that two of my friends, who are actually pretty smart people otherwise, buy into homeopathy. Who am I to deny people their fantasies? Might as well indulge them if I can get something out of it.…

Tough line to walk when I’m trying to convince fence-sitters and the uninformed, but in my opinion, the willingly self-deluded are fair game. Isn’t that a good chunk of what marketing is all about, after all?

 

[Perpetual Student]

More opportunity for natural selection to operate!