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, 00:34, January 13, 2009→Please...: Reisaku Kono quotes with refs
::To speak more broadly: alternative medicine is a legitimate area of research. (Alternative medicine becomes relevant here because one of the most salient claims of alternative medicine as a movement is that traditional treatments end up causing more diseases than they treat.) Even some hospitals are now granting credentials to alternative practitioners and offering alternative services, now that someone has actually spent serious money to find out that many alternative therapies do work. The papers are out there for any properly industrious student to find. Therefore, one cannot reject alternative medicine out-of-hand, but everything we publish in that regard must have solid sources. Acceptable evidence can include actual experience in offering advice to patients or friends and having that advice pay off. It must, however, involve more than claims that "the regulatory agencies are in bed with the industries that they regulate." That sort of claim is more suitable for an essay than for an article."--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 12 January 2009 (EST)
::To speak more broadly: alternative medicine is a legitimate area of research. (Alternative medicine becomes relevant here because one of the most salient claims of alternative medicine as a movement is that traditional treatments end up causing more diseases than they treat.) Even some hospitals are now granting credentials to alternative practitioners and offering alternative services, now that someone has actually spent serious money to find out that many alternative therapies do work. The papers are out there for any properly industrious student to find. Therefore, one cannot reject alternative medicine out-of-hand, but everything we publish in that regard must have solid sources. Acceptable evidence can include actual experience in offering advice to patients or friends and having that advice pay off. It must, however, involve more than claims that "the regulatory agencies are in bed with the industries that they regulate." That sort of claim is more suitable for an essay than for an article."--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 12 January 2009 (EST)
:#"The prevalence of MS in Japan has not
changed over the past two decades,3,4 while rise and fall in SMON
was synchronous with consumption of clioquinol in Japan and
SMON disappeared when the drug was withdrawn"<ref name=Kono> "SUBACUTE MYELO-OPTIC NEUROPATHY IS NOT A SPECIAL FORM OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS", ''The Lancet'', Volume 320, Issue 8292, 31 July 1982, Page 267, Reisaku Kono, Yoshigoro Kuroiwa </ref>
:#"Several workers have produced in dogs and other animals given
ral clioquinol, pathological - changes compatible with those of
MON.5 On the one hand, comparable results have never been
chieved in animals inoculated with the so-called Inoue virus, and
he very existence of this virus has been questioned."<ref name=Kono>
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