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In reply to the discussion: Rickety Woo [View all]mike_c
(36,281 posts)Many many pharmacologically active compounds are expressed in "herbs and other remedies"-- that is not in doubt, so no one should dismiss them out of hand. However, and I'm sure you know this, the line between science and woo is somewhere between thoughtful testing and application of those herbs and other remedies, with objective data collected and scrutinized, and the magical thinking that simply accepts that they're effective because they're "natural" or some such nonsense. And of course every time someone reports that they miraculously recovered from stage 4 liver cancer after a strict regime of enemas and green tea-- I'm just making that example up-- woo happens when others accept their anecdote as evidence for yet another miracle cure without question, and without any real data.