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It's popular enough here where I know quite a few people who have gone to NDs. I also know people who went into naturopathic medicine. The link I posted is the type of thing being taught in the naturopathic medicine schools.
 
No, but at least the medical field tries to. The naturopathic field doesn't.
 
I think there are probably some schools better than others and if it is not accepted by the mainstream the risk of a school opening up with BS teaching increases. I would trust the woman I know to be ethical, anyone that MD I mentioned would suggest (if he did) and several other people to recommend someone good.
 
There are only two schools in Canada I'm aware of, maybe more if you include Chiropractic colleges. I would be surprised if both didn't teach things like Bio Resonance. I'll try to look into it more. I know the big one in BC does teach homeopathy, which there is no good evidence for.
 
Coca cola providing health literacy program funding in Nunavut - to help address diabetes. Does this kind of thing not raise anyone's eyebrows at all? What place do they have in anything to do with diabetes prevention - besides going out of business? It's everywhere, corporate influence, but we don't do background research on health programs or anything else if they're government supported.

http://coca-cola.ca/pr_20130417-1.html
 
It's just plain unethical to consider it "pure science" if you don't consider the driving forces behind the research - information about which is not always forthcoming or readily available. Which to me means - I personally would rely on a friend's anecdotal evidence for many things. Why not? What's reputable?
 
And how many of them are corporate sponsored...and if they're University sponsored, how does the university get funding from drug companies and are they given a mandate or biased in any way. What about training courses, textbooks, teaching backgrounds? And how do I know if something a doctor recommends to me has not been influenced by a journal article study or workshop funded by a drug company?
 
What it comes down to is these are two health fields competing for funding and conventional medicine has won so far. It has more power, more money, more influence on people with power, more powerful people influencing its growth and direction - and that's about it.
 
Kimmio said:
And how many of them are corporate sponsored...and if they're University sponsored, how does the university get funding from drug companies and are they given a mandate or biased in any way. What about training courses, textbooks, teaching backgrounds? And how do I know if something a doctor recommends to me has not been influenced by a journal article study or workshop funded by a drug company?
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I'm not familiar with universities themselves getting much funding from drug companies, at least in Canada.
At least evidence is examined. All of the same could be said about alternative medicine, but it also lacks much of the science that tries to deal with this bias.
There are studies that show if a doctor has a pen advertising a particular drug, they will be more likely to prescribe that drug. I haven't come across any such studies to examine these biases in the alternative medicine field.
 
Kimmio said:
What it comes down to is these are two health fields competing for funding and conventional medicine has won so far. It has more power, more money, more influence on people with power, more powerful people influencing its growth and direction - and that's about it.
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More evidence, more scientifically sound principles.
 
I remember getting calendars when I was a kid, and desktop figurines/ toys, drug company handouts- with cute little cartoon bugs on them- I think the characters even had names - from a medical family member. All the pens in the house. Notepads, etc. That was the mid to late 70's...and good excuses to go on vacation. I don't know exactly what it's like now but drug reps are still working.
 
ChemGal said:
More evidence, more scientifically sound principles.
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I don't buy that. If the big drug company funds any part of the study they set the terms of the study. They do not want natural treatments to be true. Kind of like Coke...we all know that drinking it is bad...huge amounts of sugar...they can't deny it so now they have to fund diabetes awareness programs to look better but still sell their products...lots of them, they hope. There are many ways companies pull the wool over our eyes.
 
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