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Do a well designed study and it won’t be “so called ‘alternative’” anymore. We may not know why various real medical interventions work but we have better than
by bradleyjg 7y ago
Do a well designed study and it won’t be “so called ‘alternative’” anymore. We may not know why various real medical interventions work but we have better than “I’ve got a cousin” evidence that they do.
- alexandercrohde 7y agoI can't speak to this from personal experience, but I constantly hear the accusation that any sort of solid study on say herbals is going to cost millions of dollars, and that no big-pharma company would even bother to sponsor such a study because they can't patent the result (because it's an herb).
- bradleyjg 7y agoThere’s at least one pot based drug on the market. So I think there must be some way to profit from medicines that were known anecdotally to be medicinal in herb form.
- krageon 7y agoThey could patent a delivery mechanism, or isolate some compounds from the herb that work almost as well (that's not exactly an unusual result either). These arguments fall down because they don't make any sense.