"Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine." If only I knew where I heard this.
Edit: I'm fairly certain it came from House or Penn and Teller's Bullshit. Can anyone say one way or another?
Edit: I'm fairly certain it came from House or Penn and Teller's Bullshit. Can anyone say one way or another?
I'm not defending homeopathy, which I'm pretty deeply suspicious of; it _might_ merit further investigation, but homeopathic medicines certainly shouldn't be sold as medicines until they start performing a whole lot better than they have so far. I just want to point out that the medical field, and most scientific fields, are resistant to adopting new ideas even when those ideas do work.
Another example of that slowness: post-traumatic stress disorder, which was only accepted by the APA in DSM-IV (1980) after a long struggle.