And people wonder why I have deep concerns about MDs & their drugs
Pick up a copy of this month's edition of Consumer Reports.
What you don't know about your doctor could hurt you
Botched surgeries, substance abuse, sexual misconduct, doctors on probation who are still allowed to practice medicine (and who do not need to tell you).
Kinda helps a gal or guy figure out why their are regularly scheduled Inet attacks on non-toxic health alternatives which might compete against the gross profiteering of the Medical-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex, Inc.
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The OP is not about angels, but rather about MDs and their often toxic, usually overpriced pills -- and the shocking state of the profession, and the damage they do to patients.
You'll have to check with Consumer Reports on the angels thingy you are concerned about.
Without the FDA you get thalidomide babies.
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Everything is worth a grain of salt, especially with the side effects of modern medications, but to dismiss government testing of medication in favor of chakra aligning reiki monkeys armed with magic stones and magnets in their stylish anti-vaxxer spirit bracelets is a travesty.
I've only noted that there are systematic regularly scheduled attacks on non-toxic health alternatives (and also, it's worth noting, regular attacks on clean, non-toxic food).
For me that systemic pattern of attack raises questions. It should raise questions for others as well.
No worries 
That would be called anecdotal evidence, which in medicine is no evidence whatsoever.
It is like the rain dance fallacy. I danced and I danced. And eventually the rains came.Of course, the rains eventually would come whether one dances or not.
It is science that informs medicine, not lunatic magical thinking. What in the Sam Hell are subluxations (chiropractic)? Is there any science behind such a thing?
So how does acupuncture work? Simple. It doesn't. That is other than the fact that one is sticking needles into ones flesh. And how does that do anything other than inflict more pain? Oh! That's right. There's Qi (spelt backwards is "crap"
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And, oh fucking dear! Then there's homeopathy, which is as close to doing nothing as one can get. You are going to travel to a place where there is malaria? Here, let me give you nothing for it. You have cancer? Don't bother with that doctor. Let me give you nothing. Homeopathy is nothing. I cannot see any rational person supporting such a ridiculous concept.
Science informs medicine. Get used to that.
by definition
I'll try to stop doing it too.
That is too personal for me and I feel like I'm being baited. There is plenty of documented evidence out there if you are really interested, which I don't think you are.
Do not feel that it is necessary to respond.
I apologize if I offended you personally. If you are a cancer survivor, I assure you that I have no intention to offend.
However, it is my position that placebo medicine -- and I use that terminology loosely -- is abject quackery.
Chiropractic, acupuncture, reiki and other healing non-touches, Qi (which when spelled backwards is "crap" , and fucking homeopathy which by their own definition is nothing whatsoever, are not medicine. And don't get me started about so-called "energy medicine" (that lunatic Depak Chopra!).
Medicine works because it is based on science and biology. Any counter arguments should be dismissed. There is no magic medicine. And sometimes real medicine involves invasive and uncomfortable procedures. It is only a fool who would think that physicians routinely do such things merely to fill their bank accounts.
If you are a cancer survivor, you should know that.
My best to you.
...and so I am providing much-needed balance. The Medical-Pharmaceutical Industry's relentless attacks to try and stomp out competition are indeed "willfully provocative" and "wholly unnecessary."
As Consumer Reports makes plain, they really should clean up their own house.
And so you imagine that you know what I think, even though I have not said it?
Get a clue: Woo is Taboo on DU. Please try to control your psychic ideation. 
“The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And the self-righteous and all-knowing have brought us so much...
I'm by no means opposed to medical science, and have both seen and experienced tremendous good come from it. Likewise I have seen tremendous good come from non-toxic alternative health approaches.
But as Consumer Reports makes plain this month, there are widespread serious problems in the Medical Industrial Complex, Inc. Beyond the statistics and stories of caution the magazine presents, I should add that I personally have witnessed friends and family not only enjoy great blessings but also suffer horrible debiltating health consequences because of botched medical industrial systems and personnel.
So it's a mixed bag out there. In my view, health is a personal responsibility, and that extends beyond diet and exercise to wise selection of health practitioners.
Regular bashing of non-toxic forms of health care is a staple on the Net. That regular bashing or bullying - I feel - must be regarded in the light of Corporate Competition for Money Bucks. Because that is, alas, the driving engine of the Medical-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex.
That's why I start these threads. To tell the other side of the story, and to put the bashing or non-toxic health care and non-toxic food in the proper context of competition for consumer mediBucks.
