My point about questioning your ontology was in pointing out that you seem to define “alternative treatments” as ineffective without using any data to back up your claims.
I suggest checking out this book for an abundance of such. It’s a very good read in its own right besides. It’s not that alternative medicine is ineffective by definition, but that it is effectively defined as “alternative” by not meeting the standards of evidence that we demand of mainstream medicine (which are pretty lax standards already.)
Corporations don’t define things they like as mainstream and things they don’t like as alternative, the Food and Drug Administration in America, and comparable organizations in other countries, upholds certain standards for evidence about medicine, and medicine becomes “alternative” by not meeting them.
I suggest checking out this book for an abundance of such. It’s a very good read in its own right besides. It’s not that alternative medicine is ineffective by definition, but that it is effectively defined as “alternative” by not meeting the standards of evidence that we demand of mainstream medicine (which are pretty lax standards already.)
Corporations don’t define things they like as mainstream and things they don’t like as alternative, the Food and Drug Administration in America, and comparable organizations in other countries, upholds certain standards for evidence about medicine, and medicine becomes “alternative” by not meeting them.