Ethnobotany
- The reference was:
So, when your average medical researcher goes about
medical research, he starts with a fatally flawed education, and works within a
dangerously corrupt environment. If he wants more work, he must write what the drug
companies want to see. If he wants money, he will have to bow to the wishes of the
establishment thinking on health and drugs. There are thousands of corrupt medical
researchers. The sad thing is that many of them have been taught so many lies that they
often don’t even know they are being dishonest!
- In fact the most famous Ethnobototanist was probably Richard Evans
Schultes, who DID graduate from Harvard, many years ago. He did very important work in
CLASSIFYING plants. That work IS important, but he did not push on to the more valuable
job of finding out what a hundred different villages, well separated from one another, had
to say about the medicinal value of one particular plant substance, even though THEY
called it by different names. THAT is the type of ethnobotonay that can bring us cures of
modern disease with ancient wisdom.
