Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method. So e.g. candling, homeopathy, Whole Body Vibration Training, acupuncture, etc. Given that either the effect sizes of these methods are negligible or they don’t work at all, these practices are irrational from both the epistemic and the instrumental perspective. The explanation of the assertion might be a bit circular since any “alternative” medicine that works would simply be medicine. Well I can’t do anything about that.
Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method.
LOL. That’s pretty much most of contemporary Western medicine. Recall that “evidence-based medicine” is a relatively recent notion and still resisted by a lot of doctors.
Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method. So e.g. candling, homeopathy, Whole Body Vibration Training, acupuncture, etc. Given that either the effect sizes of these methods are negligible or they don’t work at all, these practices are irrational from both the epistemic and the instrumental perspective. The explanation of the assertion might be a bit circular since any “alternative” medicine that works would simply be medicine. Well I can’t do anything about that.
LOL. That’s pretty much most of contemporary Western medicine. Recall that “evidence-based medicine” is a relatively recent notion and still resisted by a lot of doctors.
Hahaha thanks for the laugh, this entire posts could use some.
Unless of course the goal is to just feel happy about some form of quackery, in which case it would be instrumentally rational of course.