On 03/26/10 23:15, Warp wrote:
>>         You could simply go a step further and blame a lot of authorities for
>> giving good reasons to mistrust them.
> 
>   In this case "authority" would be regular, official medical practice. What
> have they done to earn people's mistrust? Why is quackery more trustworthy
> in the eyes of many people?

	Well, in the US, it wouldn't be doctors, but either the FDA, or the
medical research community, or both.

	I can't come up with reasons to distrust them, though. The FDA sucks
for food, but is probably quite good on medicine.

	I think the main problem with those folks, though, is that they easily
generalize from legitimately distrusting n groups in authority to
"Authorities always work for vested interests".

	The only difference between their stance and yours is that you're being
a bit more granular. (Which is not an irrelevant difference).

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