Yep, on all accounts except for one minor difference of opinion ...
I don't consider this "relatively harmless" only because of those few who use this in place of medical treatment, like the parents who chose to treat their infant daughter's excema with holistic healing and the baby died.
5 years later, the case has finally made it to the Supreme Court. The parents are being tried for criminal negligence.
The problem I really have with all these kinds of woo is not whether the actual, specific incident was relatively harmless or not, but the fact that this kind of magical thinking leaves the door open to much more harmful actions, due to a complete and total lack of critical thinking skills and a pre-set belief in magic.
Oh, and for the record, the mother, while traveling around Europe visiting holistic healers, utilized "western medicine" while in India to treat something of hers, I think it was a broken bone but I could be wrong on that.
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Date: 5/22/09 11:05 pm (UTC)From:I don't consider this "relatively harmless" only because of those few who use this in place of medical treatment, like the parents who chose to treat their infant daughter's excema with holistic healing and the baby died.
5 years later, the case has finally made it to the Supreme Court. The parents are being tried for criminal negligence.
The problem I really have with all these kinds of woo is not whether the actual, specific incident was relatively harmless or not, but the fact that this kind of magical thinking leaves the door open to much more harmful actions, due to a complete and total lack of critical thinking skills and a pre-set belief in magic.
Oh, and for the record, the mother, while traveling around Europe visiting holistic healers, utilized "western medicine" while in India to treat something of hers, I think it was a broken bone but I could be wrong on that.