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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 27 October 2012 05:52:53AM *  6 points [-]

Hm, looks to me like you committed the noncentral fallacy twice. "Scientific evidence"--evidence can still be evidence without being "scientific". "Quackery"--yeah, there are people who scam others with fake medical advice with little regard to the others' actual health. That doesn't mean that all medical advice from non-doctors should be disregarded. For example, I resolved a long-standing repetitive strain injury thanks to this guy. If I decided to disregard his advice because he wasn't a doctor, I'd probably still be controlling my computer using voice recognition (did this for almost a year and it seriously sucked).

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 27 October 2012 06:36:45AM *  4 points [-]

For what it's worth, I attribute the vast improvement in my health over the last year to quackery (that is to say, advice given by non-doctors, based on assumptions that are far from being the consensus among those within traditional scientific institutions like medical associations and universities).