Quote Originally Posted by Slim T View Post
@ Regulas:

Let's put aside that all that right-left brained theory has not been proven and that, as for now, is still a fairytale, I'll just say something about mathematics.

For example, when complex numbers were invented, Gerolamo Cardano didn't have in mind no applicable use for them and just used them to find a theorietical solution for rooting negative numbers. Yet, those numbers have found a whole lot of applications, starting from quantum mechanics to signal analysis.

It works in other ways too in the science. If you don't realize that "western-type" science works in both ways, analytic and synthetic, you don't realize how it works.

While making a theory, scientists do invent terms to sut their equations. That's the analytical part. Then the synthetic part of science work starts: a long, boring, painstaking process of collecting data that will either prove the theory works - or crush it and replace it with a better theory. People don't know about the second part, because, as I said, it's boring (just imagine sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day, gathering data from measuring stations and then putting all those measurements into an equation), but it's crucial, because only with such a synthesis we can prevent that all that analysis and theorizing gets out of way. Data, data, data, and then synthesis of all that data, to get a correct picture of what's going on in the world.

To conclude my rant, two things:

Medicine doesn't support alternative medicines because there is no sufficient data to - synthetically - prove it works;

F = m × a is not enough and no self-respecting scientist would say it's that simple.
Slim T,

There are several areas where I differ with your opinion,

Just because something is new to you doesn't make it a fairytale, especially in this day and age, ie. google it. In fact this type of thinking really slows progress, if new ideas and possibilities are immediately riddiculed and discounted not much will change.

I am aware of synthesis in "western" science, the problem is that this synthesis is only applied to the particular equation or the topic at hand and again many things aren't considered; for instance how the big bang theory states that the universe came from a singular particle and exploded from there and created everything that exists today and this also explains why the universe is still expanding. The first law of physics states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So while the big bang theory 'explains' why the universe expands, there is a convenient avoidance of the origin of the original particle as well as the opposite reactive force to the initial "bang".

There is tons of data on alternative medicine's, the real reason for the reluctance is the difficulty to make money off of the treatments, similar to the real reason certain drugs are illegal, not because their harmful(cigarettes and booze kill more people than everything else combined) but because weed for instance doesn't leave the user with anything to treat(make money off of) than munchies and itis.