Question:
Enemies of Reason by Prof. Richard Dawkin (alternative medicine)?

On 20th August , Channel 4 aired a television programme titled "Enemies of Reason". It was written and presented by Prof. Richard Dawkins debunking "alternative medicines" including Homeopathy, Ayurveda, etc saying that they did not stand up to stringent tests as modern medicine does. He also proposes that these systems are based on concepts that defy reason and mostly work on the placebo effect (most well-placed to deliver placebo, in his words).

Link to an article on the same documentary on his official website:http://richarddawkins.net/article,1492,n...

Here are the videos :Richard Dawkins - The Enemies of Reason (part 1),http://video.google.com/url?docid=866948...

Richard Dawkins - The Enemies of Reason (Part 2)http://video.google.com/url?docid=600492...

Now, the reason I am writing is that I would be most interested in reading your opinions on this topic.

Answer: Dawkins is parroting the medical/pharmaceutical propaganda. If you want more propaganda, visit Steven Barrett's websites.

So-called 'Alternative Medicine' is a major concern for the pharmaceutical biz. People are waking up in droves to the price we have all paid for an exclusively drug-based 'health care' system. Like infant mortality and cancer rates out of control.

As people get more educated regarding natural health alternatives - and more healthy as a result - they gradually free themselves of the 'addiction' to prescribed drugs, and to the "medical" system which has an exclusive monopoly in this and many countries.

Ridicule and 'debunking' have historically been very effective tactics to ward people off from underlying truths that threaten Big Pharma's power and profit... Mix a few accepted truisms with some half-truths and a healthy dose of slander, and WA-LA: a (hopefully) best-selling book that scares people away from alternative health care, and herds them back into the Dr's offices and hospitals!!!

Intelligent, health-conscious people, more often than not, look at books like Dawkins' as indicators of health care approaches to investigate further, rather than to turn away from. If it concerns the medical/pharmaceutical profiteers enough to get one of their shills to write a book about it, IT'S PROBABLY GOOD FOR OUR HEALTH!