Can't argue with that. I think that your statement begs the question of whether, in the absence of "quality control" and "oversight," traditional healers (and I am speaking here of practioners who have undergone the same kind of long-term, rigorous training that was common, for example, among students of martial art teachers practicing Die Da medicine, or among apprentices of a classically trained Chinese acupuncturist or herbalist) actually posed a substantial risk to their patients in the first place?
This is a separate question from whether, if a traditional healing modality attains a measure of success against, for example, a contagious disease, and it is subsequently shown that a Western drug, for example, attains a similar or greater measure of success against the same disease, then patients should have access to both forms of treatment modalities?
Best,
Steve