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<blockquote data-quote="Patsy" data-source="post: 3056357" data-attributes="member: 140011">I don&#039;t disagree. However, if an alternative treatment is based on, and promoted on claim X, but appears to &#039;work&#039; via Y (the placebo effect), then this doesn&#039;t validate the basis on which the treatment is promoted on. In fact, it doesn&#039;t event validate the medication itself since the medication given may even have been entirely irrelevant to the healing (which is exactly how homeopathy sometimes appears to work). I think it is dishonest to promote as anything otherwise.The next question to ask is whether we should justify a treatment purely on the placebo effect alone. I don’t think we should. I think a treatment should have a demonstrable and confirmed effect in alleviating an illness/condition before it can be offered as a treatment for that condition. This is partly the reason why I am against alternative medicine, because such demonstration and confirmation is generally lacking.On a side note, here&#039;s an article which discusses alternative medicine which I agree with: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/altwary.html</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Patsy, post: 3056357, member: 140011"] I don't disagree. However, if an alternative treatment is based on, and promoted on claim X, but appears to 'work' via Y (the placebo effect), then this doesn't validate the basis on which the treatment is promoted on. In fact, it doesn't event validate the medication itself since the medication given may even have been entirely irrelevant to the healing (which is exactly how homeopathy sometimes appears to work). I think it is dishonest to promote as anything otherwise. The next question to ask is whether we should justify a treatment purely on the placebo effect alone. I don’t think we should. I think a treatment should have a demonstrable and confirmed effect in alleviating an illness/condition before it can be offered as a treatment for that condition. This is partly the reason why I am against alternative medicine, because such demonstration and confirmation is generally lacking. On a side note, here's an article which discusses alternative medicine which I agree with: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/altwary.html [/QUOTE]

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