That western medicine is often full of itself, deeply [insert -ism or -phobia] in practice, and frequently misguided is all very true and reasonable criticism. The person I replied to was essentially writing off the entire foundation of western medicine because doctors and medical science people don't always fully understand why things work.
It would be like someone writing off Newtonian physics before quantum mechanics was a thing because a lot more of the how wasn't yet understood. The practice of medicine has moved past the "if she floats, she's made of wood, and that means she's a witch" phase even if it still sees anyone other than cishet white dudes as witches.
It would be like someone writing off Newtonian physics before quantum mechanics was a thing because a lot more of the how wasn't yet understood. The practice of medicine has moved past the "if she floats, she's made of wood, and that means she's a witch" phase even if it still sees anyone other than cishet white dudes as witches.