I’ve talked about some of the “sponsored” pharmaceutical company representatives leading the skeptic cry. But many of the niave, sheep like follower skeptics of alternative health methods and skeptics of organic foods think that what they are doing is simply altruistic and protecting the integrity of science. Unfortunately, that is definitely not the case. They are simply increasing the likelihood that all of “science” will be controlled by corporations that do not have your health and wellbeing necessarily in mind.
The niave assumption is that all of conservative, conventional science is completely integral and never biased or just having a few little indiscretions. Lets face it, in a GMO dominated and pharmaceutical dominated world this is impossible at the moment.
In their niave zeal skeptics even call for monopolies in medicine and agriculture and are unquestioning of pharmaceutical medicine. This scenerio is now in play in the UK. The attempted destruction of alternatives can only increase the grip that pharmaceutical companies have on medicine and Monsanto has on agriculture. A very tight and costly grip.
May 1, 2008 at 4:37 pm
You just aren’t paying attention to skeptic blogs. They make far more telling attacks on the excesses of big pharma than the CAM crowd, probably because they actually understand the science and the issues.
I’m afraid that to the sceptic sCAMsters and big Pharma are frequently guilty of parallel moral and intellectual lapses. You will have nothing to offer if you continue screaming hysterically about conspiracy theories and don’t engage with the real arguments.
May 1, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Oh sure, Derik. On those blogs, I don’t see anything about big pharma because it is blocked by all the back slapping about the attack of alternative medicine and its practitioners and the criticism of anything else that does not toe the line of conservative conventional science and medicine.
But by equating CAM and Big Pharma you are really showing the incredible naivety that you are suffering under.