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The point being made here is that if something has been proven to work, it is no longer alternative medicine. "Evidence based alternative" is a contradiction.

• pella 15y ago
  Alternative medicine is any healing practice: "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine
  • burgerbrain 15y ago
    "Conventional medicine" being "medicine for which there actually exists evidence of it working."
    • pella 15y ago
      source ? don't forget : 51% Unknown effectiveness .. http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp one example "Unknown effectiveness" "Pancreatic cancer New option(s) added for: Chemoradiotherapy for resected pancreatic cancer One long-term follow-up study added. It found no significant difference between adjuvant chemoradiotherapy and surgery alone for overall survival or progression-free survival at 11.7 years' follow-up. Categorisation unchanged (Unknown effectiveness), as the evidence is not strong enough to draw definitive conclusion."