(November 20, 2015 at 11:28 pm)MentalGiant Wrote: You do realize you aren't going to convince those of us who have benefited from alternative medicine when western medicine failed that westernized medicine is the only 'real' form of treatment right? Part of the 'problem' with many natural remedies not being recognized by mainstream medicine is no one will do the 'accepted' studies on them because there is no money to be made off them. You really can't patent an herb or extract of something that occurs naturally, which severely limits potential profits if you are a large drug companys. You can, however, put a patent on some chemical that doesn't occur anywhere in nature you've concocted in a lab somewhere. Which do you think a drug company is going to invest the $$$ for a full scale drug trial for- the herbal remedy they can't patent and *might* make a couple million off of at most (over a very long timescale) OR some pharmaceutical drug they can patent then jack up the price on until the patent expires while they rake in tens of billions from on a very short timescale?
Put forward the names of the remedies that you claim are working. Let us judge for ourselves.
I will agree that there is a problem with patent process/law when it comes to medication.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
