rename alternate medicine to alternate treatments

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   Cleo Flatular on May 6, 2022 at 12:42 am

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   Idea: rename alternate medicine to alternate treatments

   Link: https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/a...

   Treatment or medicine, its still just a scam https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/alternativemedicine/66316

   ‘What Used to Be Fraud Is Now Alternative Medicine’

   Link: https://www.medpagetoday.com/pri

   Perry Wilson, MD, discusses the new quackery with Steven Novella, MD

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   green fingers on May 5, 2022 at 11:40 am

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   Idea: rename alternate medicine to alternate treatments

   Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_...

   It isn’t called alternative or even alternate medicine, it is an alternative to medicine, so it is correctly called complimentary medicine. It may or may not help, but it still gets the name medicine, urr, somehow.

   Terminology of alternative medicine - Wikipedia

   Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te

   Alternative medicine describes any practice which aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but which lacks biological plausibility and is untested or untestable. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrated medicine or integrative medicine (IM), and h... Read more

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  Clever Dick on May 5, 2022 at 5:11 pm

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  I agreed. Alternative medicine describes any practice which aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but which lacks biological plausibility and is untested or untestable.

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