Hueristical decision-making is quick and practical. Experts tend to have better hueristics, and are usually in a better position to speculate about unfamiliar or uncertain treatments than laypeople. One good reason to be a fantasy-forbidding expert is that there are massive asymmetries in unvalidated medicine. The potential upside of taking vitamin X is probably small and bounded. The potential downside is unbounded.
That said, given the long history of traditional medicine, there are probably some effective treatments in the alternative medicine canon that just aren’t yet well understood. Intellectual modesty is important.
Hueristical decision-making is quick and practical. Experts tend to have better hueristics, and are usually in a better position to speculate about unfamiliar or uncertain treatments than laypeople. One good reason to be a fantasy-forbidding expert is that there are massive asymmetries in unvalidated medicine. The potential upside of taking vitamin X is probably small and bounded. The potential downside is unbounded.
That said, given the long history of traditional medicine, there are probably some effective treatments in the alternative medicine canon that just aren’t yet well understood. Intellectual modesty is important.