#9: But It’s Natural, and Natural is Good!
When you really stop to think, is there any reason a remedy SHOULD be better just because it’s natural? There are plenty of natural poisons, from hemlock to strychnine. Plants have to protect themselves from predators, and they have invented quite an array of chemical defenses. We go organic out of concern for artificial pesticide residues in our food, but natural pesticides make up 99.99% of the pesticides in our diet. Plants have no intention of helping us. If there’s a chemical in a plant that’s medically useful to us, it’s not natural: it’s unnaturally good luck.