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Greetings.
Todays debate is centred around the issue of alternative medicine. As the
government, we believe and support the motion today that is, Alternative
Medicine is A Risk to Public Health.
First, allow me to Risk is the possibility of harm or something unpleasant.
Alternative medicine here denotes any practice, product or therapy claimed
to be medically beneficial that falls outside the scope of conventional
medicine and is without any pharmacological, surgical, and biomedical
basis.
Eg, homeopathy, naturopathy, faith healing, aromatherapy, herbalism and
the like.
The idea of this being an individual matter and not the concern of the public
and by extension the government at least problematic as every individual
and their action affects the public. Hence each individual and their health is
the concern of the public and the government.
Ladies & gentlemen,
When it comes to alternative medicine, what often follows are extraordinary
claims of efficacy of the certain therapies. Often, slogans and phrases like
this pill will cure your diabetes or this will get rid of your hypertension are
used arbitrarily. Some even go to the extent of demonising proven evidence
based medicine and drugs with scare tactic.
Not only are these claims misleading when it comes to curing such
diseases, they are rarely backed up with any evidence. In fact the basis
and explanations that underlies these therapies range from the biologically
implausible to out pseudoscience bit deranged in science fiction. This is
probably why for the most part, alternative medicine has always relied
AGAINST
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antibiotics, not only does the person have to undergo longer course of
disease and serious complications may develop, the spread of this disease
continues inevitably.
Instead of a disease being halted, the actions of these individuals who
choose alternative medicine result in direct spreading and transmission of
infections to the public. This harm is a direct consequence the practice of
alternative medicine.
Rebuttal..
With that, I reiterate the stand we have today that is alternative medicine
adversely affects public health and only when the government takes it this
seriously can the harm from the practice of alternative medicine be
addressed effectively.