Sick people often seek alternative therapies because doctors do not have any treatments to offer He had the option of chemotherapy with a 50 / 50 chance of lon

Sick people often seek alternative therapies because doctors do not have any treatments to offer He had the option of chemotherapy with a 50 / 50 chance of long term survival. The article is not about seeking alternative treatments as a last resort, it is about disregarding well proven science in favour of unproven (and in this case ineffective) alternatives.