Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!djhawley From: djhawley@wateng.UUCP (David J. Hawley) Newsgroups: net.med,net.cooks,net.consumers Subject: Re: Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Prevention (pointer) Message-ID: <2767@wateng.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 09:39:07 EDT Article-I.D.: wateng.2767 Posted: Fri Aug 23 09:39:07 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 18:16:03 EDT References: <1848@aecom.UUCP> <1093@cbdkc1.UUCP> <174@unc.unc.UUCP> <360@rti-sel.UUCP> Reply-To: djhawley@wateng.UUCP (David J. Hawley) Distribution: na Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.med:2164 net.cooks:4670 net.consumers:2840 Summary: In article <360@rti-sel.UUCP> wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) writes: >In article <174@unc.unc.UUCP> oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) writes: > >>I have done my best to stay out of these discussions about >>"natural" medicine, since they reduce so quickly to statements >>of faith and magic by those who decry conventional medicine. ... >Science sees the world as a text whose meaning yields to >experimentation and rational examination. Salvation (or a cure) >results from a scientific approach to problems. The 'natural' ideologue >seems to see the world as a text whose meaning is forever beyond >rational explication, and the act of rational examination as a >betrayal of our roots as 'natural' beings. >Since it's based on Faith, argument with its most dedicated >practitioners is probably futile. As Bill notes elsewhere in the quoted article (sadly, I edited the ref. out) the belief in a limitless rationality is also faith. I think its valuable to look for approaches outside our hi-tech (hyper-tech?) machine-intensive methodologies. I think we can also recognize that immature fields of study are more easily criticized (because of low credibility, and because of errors as well). -- These opinions are the best I could come up with on short notice. I would like to thank my parents, my friends, the authors of books I've read, and life itself for helping me form these opinions. However none of the afore-mentioned necessarily agree with what I have said here. {allegra,clyde,decvax,ihnp4,linus}!watmath!wateng!djhawley