Dying to give a natural birth

As Andrew Bolt observes, nobody wants to take advantage of the grief that Janet Fraser must be experiencing, or indeed add to it.

But there is a serious issue here, whether it is anti-vaccination crackpots or those who liken a doctor assisted birth to rape, and that is the flight from reason that appears to be taking hold within the West and its rejection of possibly the single greatest achievement of Western Civilization - modern science (including medicine).

And I mean real medicine, not superstitious junk like homoeopathy and naturopathy, which we know from repeated trials doesn't work and yet people still believe in. "Believe" being the operative word.

How else to explain the continued naive belief in the usefulness of wind power, even when all the evidence clearly shows that it is completely useless, both in terms of generating useful amounts of electricity when needed and consistently and in reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

Or when even supposedly reputable bodies as the Cancer Council peddle the myth that diet causes cancer - see here for a recent example of such a claim that is used as "evidence" by them.

As Bolt says in relation to the terrible tragedy that has overtaken Ms Fraser "...this case is indeed symbolic - of a demonisation of Western medicine (the flower of Western civilisation), and of a growing tide of irrationality," and that "taxpayer-funded TAFE colleges teach homoeopathy as science. Victoria University until recently offered bachelor degrees in naturopathy and homoeopathy, covering “vibrational medicine” and “the metaphysical”."

Or indeed that a government agency, VicHealth, wasted $7,000 of taxpayers' money to pay women to perform a naked rain dance!

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