Re: Alternative medicine

[Paul Brandon]

At 5:38 PM -0400 8/10/99, Michael J. Kane wrote:
>Someone once said, and I paraphrase, that there is no
>"alternative medicine;" there is medicine that works and
>medicine that does not.
>
>I like this.  Any system, drug, herb, practice, etc. that can be
>demonstrated to cure illness in double-blind studies is medicine.
>Anything else is something else.
>
>-Mike

Agreed!
A better term might be 'Alternatives TO medicine'.

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