conventional medicine and wackos

Today I learned that articles like this one about people losing faith in conventional medicine and turning to alternative therapies annoy me because people like me get lumped in with the 'if it's natural it must be better' crowd that would eat rocks if a suitably spiritual-looking type told them to.

Maybe this was not the point of the article, but it appears that I may be a total nutball, so why are you reading this?