[VOA]

Where Is the Medical Community?

Well, they mostly went silent when they let folks like Deepak Chopra and
other purveyors of "traditional" or "alternative" treatments into the door.

There may be active pharmaceuticals in some of the old remedies...
but when a lot of claptrap is accepted and gets wide-spread dissemination
on "Oprah" and the like...
well, it's a bit late to get try to close the barn door on what
is not hard-core, reductionist approaches to medicine/science.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Well Chopra does rhyme with Oprah.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Much of this is due to Orrin Hatch's bill forbidding regulation of "natural" things as opposed to "unnatural things" like synthetic drugs. Belladonna is natural.