Traditional knowledge has no value to science outside of anthropology
• Superstitious Folly
The real problem is, of course, that AIDS drugs are too expensive. But instead of confronting this problem, resources have gone into ensuring that traditional healers are treated on a par with medical professionals. One article on TAWG concludes that perhaps modern drugs are not worth having after all: 'expensive new therapies, by the way, often lose their knockout punch over time. Hence, treating patients with traditional medicines has as much validity now as it did thousands of years ago.'