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"Some things do work and are not yet accepted in medicine. Herbal medicine etc."

Herbal medicine is medicine. "Alt-med" is reserved for treatments that are not and will not ever be evidence-based.

I am on my way to my MD, I know. But in the real world people do use "Alt Med" for treatments that have shown efficacy already. It takes far longer than expected until this stuff becomes part of practiced medicine though. In the end I don't care about the label, but the evidence/science and the results.

"But in the real world people do use "Alt Med" for treatments that have shown efficacy already."

You're investing in their false modality by using it to define actual medicine, in the same way that people market "homeopathic" OTC based on actual ingredients and not "water memory".

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