While I basically agree with your conclusions about payments, etc., your premises are weird.
Doctors are hardly “New Age” snake-oil salesmen. The New Age snake-oil people are the 1s telling us NOT to go to “western doctors”, and to take this 1 supplement pill and it solves all problems, and that this 1 problem is the cause of all your problems, etc. All without real research.
Doctors are hardly “New Age” snake-oil salesmen. The New Age snake-oil people are the 1s telling us NOT to go to “western doctors”, and to take this 1 supplement pill and it solves all problems, and that this 1 problem is the cause of all your problems, etc. All without real research.
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I actually think there is snake oil in both. The reason there is not as much research into nutrition and natural compounds as pharmaceuticals is that you can’t patent nutrition or a natural compound and make huge profits off of it. So there isn’t the funding for the research. So the docs use and recommend only what is researched adequately and scientifically, which isn’t natural compounds and nutrition, because the money isn’t there funding the research. It’s a market problem. Actually it might be an area where government funding might make sense. Of course there is no money to push for government funding, so the tax breaks and grants go to the pharam companies, the hospitals, and the universities researching artificial compounds and machines.