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We need to reframe alternative medicine in a new way. Like this.
We learn more about medicine every day, and the amount of new information is astounding. Once you realize how much more we know about the human body today than we did just 50 years ago, appealing to the medical expertise of ancient civilizations just doesn’t make much sense. I often hear people argue that “science doesn’t know everything.” But, in the words of Dara O’Briain, “Science knows it doesn’t know everything; otherwise, it’d stop.”
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I think this is the most important point. There is no alternative medicine, either it works and it's medicine, or it doesn't and it's not.
Not everything done in hospitals is real medicine, not everything done by traditional healers is "not medicine", but it in the end what's important is trying to get the best treatment to everyone.
I liked this bit: