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by cobaltblue 3814 days ago
The entire thrust of our medical regulatory system, from the Flexner Report to today, is the belief that it's better for 1000 patients to die of neglect, than 1 from quackery. Until this irrational fear of quack medicine is cured, there will be no real progress in the field.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819346

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> Until this irrational fear of quack medicine is cured, there will be no real progress in the field.

Are you suggesting we've made "no real progress in the field" of medicine since 1910?