'When the issue of “alternative medicine” comes up, skeptics often invoke some version of the cliche uttered by Michael Shermer not long ago in an interview before a panel discussion with Deepak Chopra and others on “The Nature of Reality”: “There is no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s just scientific medicine, and all the unproven stuff. What Deepak is promoting is a sort of alternative, complimentary medicine, and most of that is woo-woo.”
The insinuation, of course, is that “scientific medicine” has been proven. But as we’ve written before , this just isn’t true. Most conventional medical practices are just as “unproven” as those Shermer dismisses as “woo-woo.”'
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