Chris Mooney points to a short note in the Times about echinacea research and notes,
[Echinacea] doesn’t seem to work to assuage the symptoms or duration of the common cold, as popularly alleged. Just another example of the complementary and alternative medicine craze getting way ahead of the evidence….
And more proof of the utter break down in rationalism in our culture, if you ask me. It’s not that absolutely no alternative remedy works in any way; there may be some which do. It’s just that you have a culture which values alternative medicine as an irreducible remainder after rational explanation. Hence the supposed superiority of “spiritual” healing and of traditional folkways over modern science.
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