I read (perhaps too hastily) ‘traditional medicine’ as being what is typically 
described as normal contemporary medical practices; not folk medicine.
If you mean the latter, than yes, ‘oxymoron’ is correct.

On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Jim Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is it redundant or an oxymoron?
>  
> Jim
>  
> Jim Clark
> Professor & Chair of Psychology
> University of Winnipeg
> 204-786-9757
> Room 4L41 (4th Floor Lockhart)
> www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark
>  
> From: Paul Brandon [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 9:13 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: Re: [tips] More on Nobel prize and traditional medicine
>  
>  
> 
> ‘Traditional medicine’ is redundant.
> There is medicine (supported by science and consistent with scientific 
> principles)
> and there is quackery.
> Naturopathy is quackery, not medicine.
>  
> On Oct 13, 2015, at 11:33 PM, Jim Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
>  
> Science based medicine has a good piece on the nobel prize Michael P reviewed 
> nicely. Shows how it can be misinterpreted and abused by the naturopathy 
> industry, not surprisingly.
>  
> https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-the-nobel-prize-does-not-validate-naturopathy-or-herbalism/
>  
> Take care
> Jim

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]




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