Doctors grumble at the
popularity of alternative medicine, but the truth is that we still have a
monopoly. This is not so in other civilized nations. In France and Germany, for
example, herbal medicine is mainstream - i.e. health insurance pays for it.
When Americans get sick,
almost all head straight for a medical doctor. From a doctor’s view, that’s the
right decision. Scientific medicine works. But that’s not the reason. The idea
that scientific explanations are the best has always been a minority view, and
recent nutty events haven’t changed matters. In a free election, ghosts would
win and evolution lose -- by a landslide.
Americans mostly prefer medical
doctors just as we prefer baseball and big cars. It’s an American thing. We
don’t eat horse meat because…well, we don’t.
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