Re: Sticking a Needle in Alternative Medicine, Part II

On Nov 28, 11:59 am, Debbee <Butterflies2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cool article.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4122/

"Evidence-based medicine, alternative medicine and weaponry change
through time because of selection pressure. This means that they
evolve and produce a fossil record of discontinued methods and
therapies.

"Any method or therapy introduced into alternative medicine will face
selection pressure from two directions. If a method hurts patients to
a visible extent, it will be recognised as weaponry and thrown out of
altie medicine. Government regulations will forbid it and the more
savvy altie practicioners will
soon learn that it leads to nasty law suits.

"If on the other hand a method introduced into alternative medicine
turns out to be significantly beneficial to patients, it will soon be
co-opted by evidence-based medicine and thus leave the altie realm.

"So, there is evolutionary pressure on alternative therapies to
achieve near-zero effect."

http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2007/11/selection_pressure_on_altie_me.php
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