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United Nations crackdown on "alternative" medicine. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
On May 16th, the World Health Organization (WHO), a UN branch, "took the first step ... toward becoming the global watchdog over unconventional medicine," reported the New York Times. The WHO "is looking closely at non-Western treatments, because at least 80 percent of the people in the world's poorest countries use them. Few of those countries can regulate their folk healers or share their plant lore -- which may be a miracle cure or a poison."
But the WHO would not just scrutinize aboriginal witch doctors. "As defined by the WHO, folk medicine -- sometimes called traditional and alternative/complementary medicine -- includes everything from chiropractic care and fad diets in New York City to porcupine quill injections in South America, shamanistic trances in Siberia, ...
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