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> What you call "mainstream" providers provide tested, evidence-based medicine. I think there is more nuance than that. Modern medicine is a mix of things that
by carbocation 13y ago
> What you call "mainstream" providers provide tested, evidence-based medicine.
I think there is more nuance than that. Modern medicine is a mix of things that people have been doing for a long time and things that newer that are proven to work in randomized, controlled trials (for certain values of "work").
The things we've been doing for a long time might not work.
An important difference between the field of modern medicine and the field of alternative medicine, in my biased view, is that modern medicine actively attempts to figure out what works based on evidence, and evidence hugely changes practice and standards of care. In contrast, I do not believe that the same is equally true in general in alternative medicine, at least not with well designed studies.
- Alex3917 13y agoExactly. Of the 11,714 drugs approved for marketing by the FDA, ~7,624 (65%) of them were approved with absolutely zero evidence of either safety or efficacy because they were grandfathered in by the 1962 amendments of the pure food and drug act. But of course the folks that big pharma pays to astroturf on Internet forums will never tell you that.