Dufresne
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I don't know how much is spent in other countries but I know in Ireland lots of people have spent thousands or in some cases over 10,000 Euros over the years on therapies which I think are simply placebos.
If a small amount eg. 1 or 2% had been spent on research, or if some effort had been put into fundraising, we would likely have moved the science forward. Perhaps we would have treatments or at least targets that drug companies could work on.
Governments only ever fund a fraction of the grant applicants. We need a lot of private money to fund other interesting ideas and also to provide seed money for smaller research studies which can collect data and allow them apply for bigger grants.
The relative lack of funding that has been raised has left us open to psychobabble theories.
So you're lamenting how other people spend their money? Like if only these goofs would come to believe what you believe, that they're wasting their money on crap, and then conclude to spend their sick dollars on what you think is appropriate? How arrogant is that?
It always amazes me when folks take exception to innocuous ventures others follow. And then they pretend like they're doing it out of concern: "oh I don't want these poor benighted individuals to waste their money or, even worse, deprive themselves of real treatments."
My idea of integrative medicine is using everything at one's disposal one believes to be effective. I think the best clinicians working in ME/CFS (KDM, Cheney, the vast majority of LLMD's) do this. And often there aren't studies to back up their practice, just clinical evidence.
So I'd suggest not getting your hackles up about people having the freedom to spend their money as they see fit and work on getting yourself healthy. Or perhaps you don't think you can accomplish this only some qualified scientist could get you there. Personally I think I'd probably slit my wrists if I was convinced I had to wait for this to happen.
And really, do we need to get into homeopathy again? We could always go on to some Christian sites and tell them what idiots they are... Maybe that'll be just as satisfying.
(Nothing against Christianity or any religion -just trying to make a point.)
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