Actually, I think drug company profiteering is definitely relevant to this topic. Being snake-oil salesman/profiteers is a claim often lobbied against homeopathists, I think it is only fair to point out that the medical establishment is capable of this same behavior.

I think it's also important to point out that homeopathy, holistic, traditional, and natural medicine are four separate things. The first is the most "New Age" (in a non-derogatory meaning), holistic is somewhere in between, and...well, traditional and natural medicine are as old as humanity (maybe even older, as animals have been observed self-medicating before).

Would anyone claim that western medicine has all the answers?

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