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Re: [CZ-VZ-Files] Re: OT My new electronic music project
2014-01-17 by <synergeezer@...>
Where I have a problem is at the point of saying "this music treats problems with the lungs", or "listen to this for the good of your heart" (while leaving the metaphorical sense behind). That this is taught in some (otherwise respectable) universities makes no actual difference (argumentum ab auctoritate). Just a few years ago, there was a police-approved movement to end ritual Satanic abuse of children in the US. Nothing ever came of this, except the governmental and societal abuse of, apparently, innocent and mystified parents; no convictions, and it seems to have disappeared. Chiropractic is taught in some universities in the US, and the NIH has a Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. I believe this displays a slide into quackery, and I hope it is temporary.
To respond to another response, Kuhn had some insight, but drew grandiose conclusions from it.
I would not have you stop making your music, but I think the claims of specific medical curative properties (over and above the general increase in well-being) are excessive.
(I'll stop now, hopefully before the Admin kicks me off!)
- synergeezer