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I think this faith in "natural" remedies is an example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. People see the health care industry profiting off traditional drugs and assume that the profit is the primary motivating force. Every corporate product then becomes a potential thalidomide, The Man trying to keep you down. Corporate medicine becomes wholly evil in their minds, and as a consequence, the opposite (so-called natural medicine) becomes wholly good. The dangers that can arise from untested and unregulated medicine are psychologically minimized, just as the dangers of corporate medicine are exaggerated. It's a process that we're all prone to, and it's much easier than researching things on a case-by-case basis.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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