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Perhaps the greatest danger in the way that alternative therapists behave is simply the promotion of their own treatments when patients should be in the care of a conventional doctor. There are numerous reports of patients with serious conditions (e.g. diabetes, cancer, AIDS) suffering harm after following irresponsible advice form alternative practitioners instead of following the advice of a doctor.

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Simon Singh

Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine

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God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very possibility of explanation, scientific or otherwise. It is important to stress this because influential authors such as Richard Dawkins will insist on conceiving of God as an explanatory alternative to science _ an idea that is nowhere to be found in theological reflection of any depth. Dawkins is therefore tilting at a windmill - dismissing a concept of God that no serious thinker believes in anyway. Such activity is not necessarily to be regarded as a mark of intellectual sophistication.

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John C. Lennox

God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

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One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict __nnecessary_ suffering and death on animals, 99% of the suffering and death that we inflict on animals can be justified only by our pleasure, amusement, or convenience. For example, the best justification that we have for killing the billions of nonhumans that we eat every year is that we enjoy the taste of animal flesh and animal products. This is not an acceptable justification if we take seriously, as we purport to, that it is wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering or death on animals, and it illustrates the confused thinking that I characterize as our __oral schizophrenia_ when it comes to nonhumans.A follow-up question that I often get is: __hat about vivisection? Surely that use of animals is not merely for our pleasure, is it?__ivisection, Part One: The __ecessity_ of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach