barry Wrote:
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> wirelessguru1,
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> this 'guy' sounds like the re-incarnation of
> Rudyard Kipling -- all the brown and black people
> owe their very existence to Western science.
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> Indeed, an argument can (and has) been made that
> the concept of vaccination against smallpox was
> known and used in India until stopped by the
> 'enlightend scientists' from Great Britain.
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On the other hand, a great many South Africans are going to die of AIDS due to the pseudoscience being pushed by the President and his Health Minister. And don't tar me with the "colonialist' epithet since I have been writing about the validity of non-western medicine for decades-- (look at my book or my list of publications)
Bernard


> What is shocking is how easily polemics of Hari's
> sort are so easily accepted at face value.
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> Barry
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