Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Distortion

hi gloria

if you would kindly forward to me the thread, i'd happily reread it. at times i do indeed type too quickly.

i believe you are referring to the african trad medicine thread where i expressed doubts about its efficacy concerning a disease no one had seen before? for diseases that have been around, testing various products over the years has resulted in some efficacious results; but i can't see how that would work here.

i also think in some cases the healers see their craft as part of a spiritual practice to be kept secret. medical knowledge advances when it is shared, and science has advanced only by building on what others before us have discovered. that's how i see medicine working. it is impeded when corporations keep secret patents for their medicines;but if you go to med school, or to any university in the world, what you study is the knowledge of those who came before you.

how could a traditional medical practice address the problem of a new disease unless they had tools already developed in the past.

you can explain that to me so i'd understand; but what i've seen about atm doesn't lead to believe it would be efficacious in the case of covid-19.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Ken,
Read what you wrote, and if you still think that your view was distorted, then accept my heartfelt apology.

GE

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