Is modern medicine actually "scientific"? The gold standard for
modern medicine is the double-blind and placebo-controlled
trial. But there are serious problems with these studies,
unknown to most, but widely acknowledged by researchers.
Scientists can easily set up a study that shows a drug is
effective for a very limited period of time. Most studies of
drugs for psychiatric conditions last only six weeks. What
happens after that? Do they still work? Do they start to cause
terrible side effects? The studies will not tell you. Dana
Ullman, author of 10 books on homeopathic medicine, writing in
the Huffington Post, argues: “Sadly and strangely, many
physicians do not see that there is something fundamentally
wrong with the present medical model ... for the large majority
of people facing day-to-day chronic illnesses, it provides
short-term results, serious side-effects, and stratospherically
high costs.”