I suspect one of the problems facing alternative health care in the US is the country's cutthroat business culture. The ascendance of the FDA and AMA was helped along by legions of charlatans, not people who investigated phenomena outside the comfort zone of materialist academics, but blatant con artists selling sham cures they knew didn't work. People in the US welcomed the FDA because it closed the door on all the phony miracle cures.
If there is to be a renaissance of etheric medicine, the most important question is how to keep quacks and criminals out. If etheric treatments become a hot topic, expect some guy to build a box with some lights that blink randomly and a metal tiara that connects to your head with some wires and sell it as an "Ether-Balancing Hyperbaric Phantasmotron" for $20,000. Frauds who devote all their energy to spinning lies have an easier time getting noticed than honest researchers who are focused on conducting repeatable experiments. Etheric research may be banished to the shadows now, but that may mean this is the best time for real contributions to the field.
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Date: 2021-04-28 12:24 pm (UTC)If there is to be a renaissance of etheric medicine, the most important question is how to keep quacks and criminals out. If etheric treatments become a hot topic, expect some guy to build a box with some lights that blink randomly and a metal tiara that connects to your head with some wires and sell it as an "Ether-Balancing Hyperbaric Phantasmotron" for $20,000. Frauds who devote all their energy to spinning lies have an easier time getting noticed than honest researchers who are focused on conducting repeatable experiments. Etheric research may be banished to the shadows now, but that may mean this is the best time for real contributions to the field.