Booker Warlick: To answer the original question. You won't find much data on "Alternative Medicine". If there was compelling data, it would simply be "Medicine". Oldtimek....wow. I would love to have a debate like this with you any day of the week. The simple fact is that alternative medicine does not rely on facts and figures, but rather a blind faith, similar to religion. Somebody here just claimed that its because pharma companies won't allow statistics because they can't make money off it. I simply am baffled by that response. Its illogical and false. How are pharma companies involved in your lack of data? Pharma companies are required to provide clear data proving that something is safe and effective. According to law, herbs do not have to be proven safe or effective before being sold as a "treatment". In fact, the FDA must prove that it is unsafe before they can order it to be removed from the market. In addition, alternative therapies get around the l! aw by claiming that they don't treat the disease, they help the body treat itself. This wording is a convenient loophole for them. I find it laughable that "oldtimekid" is claiming to have more facts and figures than conventional medicine. When I listen to your arguments, I feel like I'm in the twilight zone. If I had time, I'd debate you with a library full of actual evidence....Show more
Reginald Maxi: Hey. I'm doing a debate for my science class and I am defending Alternative Meds. It would help me and my partner a lot if any of you could give us some statistics of how many successful treatments there have been. Please remember that we were assigned this side of the debate and did not choose.We already know examples of A.M all we need are statistics, whether they are all as one or separate for the different Alternative meds. examples include naturopathy, chiropractic, herbalism, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, hypnosis, ho! meopathy, acupuncture, and diet-based therapiesThank you.EDITE! D: we're not ashamed of our assignment but from past experience some people like to asume that we are really trying to convince the world about our topic and we end up with the names like "crazy" or "stupid"...Show more
Bernie Cerra: One of the biggest differences between them is that Alternative Medicine helps to heal your body as a whole... to nourish your body, to help it heal itself, and/or by treating the cause of the problem. Drugs and "conventional medicine" on the other hand typically aim at treating the symptoms instead of the cause(s) of the problem. The fact of the matter is that "properly prescribed drugs" and conventional medical treatment kills (or damages) more people than Alternative Medicine. Take a look at these sites (the first one will probably give your best sources to help you in your debate):http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive...http://www.silvergen.com/Death%20by%20Medicine.htmhttp://www.doctoryourself.com/deathmed.htmlhttp://ar! ticles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive...There is a lot of information out there about how bad some things have gotten, so it's bound to be a good debate. I'm doubting your opponents would be prepared for facts and figures like these, so that might give you a HUGE leg up ;-)Good luck!...Show more
Deangelo Marchak: I don't know of any statistics on alternative therapies. The fact is that they do work, better than conventional medicine. The pharmaceutical companies won't be making a tremendous profit if they acknowledge this. Hence, there are no statistics. PS. It is a shame that you feel embarrassed about this assignment.
Nell Dipiero: Acupuncture has an excellent basis for what is termed evidence based medicine. In the academics, review papers are used to evaluate many clinical studies performed. I have written about 20 review papers looking at many healing modalities.Below are three review papers that are free and available to the public that I wrote:http:! //www.ahcpub.com/hot_topics/?htid=1&httid=147...http://www.ahcpub.com/h! ot_topics/?htid=1&httid=156...http://www.ahcpub.com/hot_topics/?htid=1&httid=140...For more, search either scholar.google.com or pubmed.gov...Show more
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