Quackwatch, Alternative Medicine, and the Search for "Truth"

Hello,

I would just like to say that I know of several arthritis doctors who use Glucosamine and make their patients sign an agreement saying they will use it before they'll let them come for regular treatment.  I think that Quackwatch ought to focus on watching the FDA more than the alternative practitioners as well as MD's who are adopting things that work from the alternative medical community.  Many more people have died from prescription drugs than have from alternative medicine... and that is just a fact.  Also, institutions like WTO's Codex is trying to make all supplements, (Vitamins and Minerals) illegal world wide.  Codex and the FDA are much greater threats to public health because they are purely doing the bidding for the pharmaceutical companies.  Let's face it, if the FDA gave a rat's back side about any one of us, they would have outlawed diet soda, trans fats and many other killers.  You talk to any liver/kidney specialist in "the know" about those two things and they will explain exactly why diet sodas are "voluntarily" switching from Nutrasweet to other "less toxic" artificial sweeteners.  Really, I have found that it's the doctors who need to get an education, not so much the public.  We've been pretty fine for the last few thousand years prior to the pharmaceutical industry taking off.  The few great advances like broad spectrum antibiotics are useful, but for how long?  Everything is becoming medically resistant, just ask anyone who works in the ER.

Just some food for thought.  If you are an uneducated consumer of mainstream medicine or alternative medicine, then you are a fool.  Get educated, get powerful and get in control of your medical present and future.