“Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.” PlayDiseaseMedicineNotionAlternativesRight ThingDoing The Right ThingExaggeratedAlternative Medicine Author:Marcia Angell
“There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.” WarLevelsExampleDemandDiseaseWeaknessConcernedManagementMedicineCancerCurrentsProofAlternativesConspiracyMainstreamDreadDominantSuperiorityTokensComplementaryAlternative MedicineIneptitude Author:Robert Atkins
“I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.” ThinkingWayBelieveEarthSocialFeminismDiseaseRootsSeparationAlternativesPatriarchyDominationHierarchySincerelyWay Of ThinkingAntidotePeace On EarthPrerequisitesPrioritize Author:Ani DiFranco
“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.” BelieveWholeChallengesFoolDemandDiseaseEvidenceTreatsClaimsPatientAlternativesLabelsParadiseProtectedQuackery Author:Edzard Ernst
“Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.” PeopleThinkingDiseaseDoctorsMedicineAlternativesQuacksAlternative Medicine Author:Mehmet Oz
“People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.” PeopleStillsImportantSeemsJobsEconomyFeetEffectsTerribleDiseaseMouthsAreasEnglandImpactAverageMeaningfulIncomeEmploymentAlternativesFallenFarmsHuntingBansWalesSpitefulRural AreasVandalism Author:Ann Winterton