Religious indoctrination is dangerous, but why aren't many aware of alt

[DeepakOprah]

health indoctrination? Alternative health and other forms of pseudoscience imposed on children from a young age (perhaps because their parent is a practitioner or strong believer) can be incredibly dangerous -- people die and are ravaged by diseases in which there is treatment for because their parents choose not to inform their kids of and allow them to seek. Why isn't this viewed as criminal behavior?

Frederick, I occasionally see a Christian Scientist go to jail, but there are many of which these things are never reported or taken seriously because most people think the parents have the right to decide, even if it's nonsense (or the kids don't know how to report or possibly fear the consequences of doing so).

[MrGoat]

Note the word "alternative". That is the danger word. That is a code word used by hippies. By alternative they mean anything but real medicine from "evil" white men. So hippies would love "natural" food or water therapies. They don't believe in vaccinations, because they are made by evil white men. They pick group sharing session rather than real doctor visits. The hippies goal is always the same. Everyone live in a tent, shower rarely and destroy the west and capitalism.

How can you help? By pointing out to your friend when you see hippy bs. Like "alternative" anything, it is almost always hippy bs

[frederickr]

It is criminal do you ever see/read the news about parents withholding med care for a child which later dies? They go to jail.

[Dawn]

should be probably .. ive even heard psychiatry kindof fits in there .. something about how they get together and come up with all kinds of new mental ailments to treat and prescribe new drugs for to legitimize themselves ..

[ElNerdoLoco]

In my view, it is. I think Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, and others should be held liable for the kids dieing of things like whooping cough because of the anti-vaccine nonsense they spread.