Dr. Mercola and The Town Of Allopath Video

Hate mail to Dr. Mercola? Okay, yes I can believe it. He doesn't really seem to follow the party line. I remember reading that this video generated more hate mail. I can't imagine it. My husband and I love it. Every once in a while I pop in to view it again. I decided today that I really should share it. The Town of Allopath

I also thought of it today because I have noticed a new buzz-phrase that the "modern medicine" quackbusters clan is trying to get us to adopt - Evidence Based Medicine. HUH? What could be more evidence based than thousands of years of real life success with herbs, manipulations, massage, etc. Sure homeopathy is a fairly new thing, but I have heard more successes coming out of homeopathy than I have "modern medicine."

Now about calling it "allopathic." I hadn't heard that term until about 10 years ago. I looked into that some, and it would seem that may be where the friction between "allopathic medicine" and homeopathy began. I guess the MD crowd doesn't like being called allopathic, so they want to be called "evidence based" now. Allopathic medicine defined on Wikipedia (bastion of reliability it is) says that the founder of homeopathics actually coined the term from Greek meaning "other than the disease" since MDs don't treat based on symptoms of the disease. I won't try to explain it all here, but it does seem that the MDs might have been a bit upset with the attitude that they were harming patients. Okay, we know they are; they still don't like it when we say that.

Suffice it to say, at our house, the new terminology for those MDs who are a bit touchy is "skidmarks disease." Hope you enjoy/enjoyed the video!

Qualification: Just FYI - I don't hate allopathic medicine, just don't like it much. Have had little reason to use it since evidence based medicine usually helps us much more quickly, effectively and with fewer side effects. We do visit the MDs if a bone is broken or there is an immediate life threatening situation. Once stabilized, we then look into mean of evidence based medicine to help us recover.