MadWorld74

Monica get you a*se back on here and say something. Just make sure you type properly. ;-)

So far it has been Monica, Citizen Ed and myself that continue to post on this thread, to try and allow others to see and think how we do. Still we continue to have our thoughts 'rubbished' by some of you boys with your wordy, weighty and a little arrogant in tone, responses. No wonder the others have disappered and ceased posting.

yes and I have read it Mark, so lay off with the condescending tone of voice I am not refering to 'scientific laboratory medicines from the east'. I am talking about medicines such as Auyurveda and Reiki. To my knowledge neither have been in a laborartory and tested on mice. Dawkins tried said that homeopathy was alright for 'scratchy heads and sore throats'. It is his belief that ONLY western medicine is 'proper' and that all other is placebo, this is the crux of my argument.

Okay I'm talking about the 'ancient eastern medicines' compaired to our scientific laboratory proven medicines in the west. That better for you, Mark?

I particularly enjoyed the part where Dawkins was a little taken aback when Teressa Hale from The Hale Clinic, informed him that the Auyurvedic therapists sit a four year degree in order to practice. They have to have know their anatomy and physiology both from the Western and Eastern sides of medicine. They didn't just learn it off the internet overnight.

ET's glowing finger, *Bob*?.....I don't think I've had that one.

what streets does she tend to hit on?

I don't think whilst watching that any of the 'quackery' therapists tried or even considered undermining people's trust in proven medicines. Not at all. This is why I couldn't understand why Dawkins was so hell bent on protecting his precious, proven, western scientific medicines. No one was putting Flemming or Jenner on the stand!

Citezen Ed and Monica, can I get you both to wade into this, please. We need a balance and the scale is already tipping...

SeanMac, We are all able to make up our own minds. We don't need someone to say "Yes, go on try it", we can do that for ourselves. Well, some can. Others have to wait to get the green light.

I did watch the show last night. After looking back at what I saw, the thing that kept on hitting me in the face was, fear. WESTERN MEDICINE AND SCIENCE SEEMS TO HAVE A HUGE FEAR TOWARDS ALL THAT IS ALTERNATIVE. WHY? Alternative therapists have not and are not saying their way is best; hence the name alternative not, only. Why then if alternative uses and studies of 'medicine' can work alongside those of the western science, can it not be done in relative harmony the other way round? Dawkins was like some wounded child who had his ideas poked fun at. He was constantly being passively aggressive in defending the greatness of his western scientific beliefs. Not one of the alternative therapist?s poked fun at his 'beliefs' they merely asked him to try and be open to other ways. Bullish and one sided documentary making on Dawkins part. Not to mention sarcastic. Why do homeopaths remain popular?..'Because they are nice people'...and the quip about piped 'whale music'....very good Dawkins, funny. When he had a session of Kinesiology, he tried from the get go to make it answer to a scientific explanation. Just lay there for f*cks sake and stop trying to be the font of knowledge. Why can't the alternatives just be accepted by Dawkins as they were by Dr Fisher? Why does it always have to be labeled 'irrational superstition'? That brings me back to the word 'fear'. Whether you agreed with his tagging of alternative and complementary therapies as 'mumbo jumbo, based on ignorance, like bleeding with leeches,' and whether you believe people like me are 'deceivers and self deceiving', is up to you. I just wished that Dawkins wasn't so old school and closed minded (although he professes to be the opposite), and I wished the whole show wasn't so damned one-sided. Disappointing.

Jah Lush....one word...TRAINING!!!!!

about hypnotists, healers and all that pith..

Ahhhhh.....I suppose all the drinking does goes some way to act as preservation...

MW74 slouches in, still on the wagon. Wonders what happened to the donkey. *ponders loud explosion on the street outside* Sits and studies the beautifully elegant DM. Wonders how she does it.

the tales he would tell we'd be under his spell

there once was this lush called Jah

here here!

she went totally nuts, called her boss a clutz and got booted head first through the front door.

she worked with the judges which was such a crushing bore

there once was a lass called Madworld74

now citezen Ed you KNOW you're not going to get a fair reviewing on this forum don't you!! Have a google at the Independant, as they reviewed it. Sorry I don't have link. At the start of this posting Mark did include a link to the show I remember.

Ah shocks Mockney dont get all uppity on me.....I meant 'ignore him' in the best sense of the way, as in don't let this posting that has gone on for way too long, upset you....not an attack on you, dear, super intelligent Mockey. X

Ignore him Monica...

I'll do brendan and I will PM you with them......I'm off tonight for a run, got to do intervals of sprinting and jogging. THAT is what I hate but I do it all the same. Weirdo...