You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Lumifer comments on Ultimate List of Irrational Nonsense - Less Wrong Discussion

-5 [deleted] 30 March 2016 08:25PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (61)

Comments (61)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 31 March 2016 02:31:03PM 2 points [-]

Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method.

LOL. That's pretty much most of contemporary Western medicine. Recall that "evidence-based medicine" is a relatively recent notion and still resisted by a lot of doctors.

Comment author: AlwaysUnite 02 April 2016 08:21:18PM -1 points [-]

Hahaha thanks for the laugh, this entire posts could use some.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit