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> I'm a programmer who eats healthy & practices yoga. I don't make money from cancer patients. That is very noble of you and I read an implied hypothesis that
by sgift 12y ago
> I'm a programmer who eats healthy & practices yoga. I don't make money from cancer patients.
That is very noble of you and I read an implied hypothesis that the approach used by "large drug companies" and "established professional organizations" is worse than yours because their motives are less noble (e.g. companies want to make money, organizations want to further an agenda etc.), but a hypothesis alone is worthless if you cannot show evidence to prove it.
I give you that it would be hard to provide direct evidence for this hypothesis (neither companies nor organizations will be very helpful in providing information which could show that they lied for various reasons), so a good approach seems to be the indirect route: Show that your ideas work as well as the established ideas in a study following the established guidelines for scientific quality (double blind, big enough, and so on). Then you have shown that your hypothesis has merit and has a good chance of being sound advice.
So far, all we have are your believes, which is not very much when we talk about a topic that could very well change peoples lifes for worse (or better, but it is always a good idea to be cautious with unproved theories).
- briantakita 12y agoI'm not a practitioner so I'm not going to make any studies. As far as the holistic crowd, many are artsy people, with a wide range of interests, who have little interest in creating scientific studies. They have to earn a living, which is often difficult. Yes, there is also quackery, though I suspect there are some nuggets of gold in these practices. Among the scientists, it feels like there is a strong sentiment against such holistic practices & a perception that the practitioners are scammers. Judging from the reaction to me in this discussion, it would take a brave scientist to stick out his/her neck to spend years, money, & reputation to research such practices; when Bayer is offering a large grant to study their drugs. There's an old IT saying, "Nobody got fired for using Microsoft". Wouldn't the same apply here?