This position holds that alternative medicine is not effective. It argues that it has no proven effect beyond the placebo response, and that the point is self-proving: any alternative treatment that genuinely worked would, once demonstrated, simply become accepted orthodox medicine.
Supporting arguments · 3
- Alternative medicine simply acts as a placeboAny benefits that one experiences from alternative medicine are simply a trick of the mind. Most diseases will come right eventually anyway unless they are chronic or terminal.
- Alternative medicine has no proven effectThere is no scientific evidence of alternative medicine's effectiveness.
- If a treatment does work, it becomes orthodox medicineAlternative medicine doesn't work - if it did, it would just be mainstream medicine.