The Pharmaceutical Industry

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by jinx

I don't understand why you think the alternative medicine industry is the bigger scandal.

Because the worst practices of the medical industry, the unfortunate examples that make up the bulk of these anti-pharmaceutical news articles, are the standard practice of the alternatives. Advertising and profit are corrupting forces on the industry. But that's all there is in the alternative industry - they are the pharmaceutical industry without the clinical trials.

The fact that some clinical trials are botched is not a good reason to skip them altogether.