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A complaint frequently invoked by those opposed to Western medicine is that the industry has a general disregard for any potential health benefits from “natural” remedies to the point of snubbing plants and herbs that are employed by non-scientists. And in the next breath, such opponents will decry Western medicine for its unflagging devotion to [...]
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Note: Author not depicted in this photo. (from Flickr by Brave Heart.)
Growing up in a small town I had the image of city folk as soft pasty-white people whose only glimpse of the outdoors was gained by peering over their window-mounted air conditioners. But anyone who has lived for even a minute in New [...]