> Eastern medicine that works would also be labeled as just medicine. That sounds a lot like the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. If you define "medicine" as "anyt

> Eastern medicine that works would also be labeled as just medicine. That sounds a lot like the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. If you define "medicine" as "anything that works", then of course "alternative medicine" is crap, by definition. One big problem with being this dismissive is that a lot of medicine started out as "alternative" and then was scientifically confirmed over time.