{"id":1141,"date":"2014-07-03T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2014-07-02T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T04:14:22","slug":"evo-morales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/07\/evo-morales\/","title":{"rendered":"Evo Morales promotes urine therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/32e2267dcc812a8782ce10903c58b03c\/tumblr_n84atdBxvF1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The president of Bolivia, <strong>Evo Morales<\/strong>,\u00a0took advantage of a public event to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elespectador.com\/noticias\/elmundo\/evo-morales-revela-curo-sus-dolencias-bebiendo-su-propi-articulo-501946\" title=\"Evo Morales revela que cur\u00f3 sus dolencias bebiendo su propia orina\">promote urine therapy<\/a> \u2014 he claims it worked for him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara native who was born and raised in a remote region of the Andes, revealed Wednesday that <strong>he used to drink his own urine to cure his ailments<\/strong>. &#8220;I was raised in the countryside on the basis of &#8216;lampaya&#8217; and &#8216;wira wira-&#8216; to cure coughs and sorry to say the truth, also the urine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>When a doctor told me: &#8216;Drink urine, it is good&#8217;, &#8220;I was healed with urine, by drinking urine, that was my medicine, we are from that family&#8221;<\/strong>, said Morales,\u00a0during a public event in the region of Cochabamba (center) where he delivered modern medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During the ceremony, the Bolivian president said doctors should combine the resources of traditional medicine, indigenous and widespread in poor areas of the country, with modern medicine. &#8220;I ask you, with great respect: <strong>we must combine traditional and scientific medicine<\/strong>&#8220;, the president told physicians attending the delivery of hospital equipment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When will rulers learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anecdotal_evidence\">personal experiences<\/a> are not evidence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales,\u00a0took advantage of a public event to promote urine therapy \u2014 he claims it worked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[61,60,17],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-bolivia","tag-evo-morales","tag-pseudoscience-antiscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}