Posted: Jun 21, 2010 10:34 am
DST70 wrote:
But you can see the problem can't you? This whole issue hinges on the issue of what constitutes evidence. To talk about the validity of alternative medicine is to bring into question the model that dictates what is, and what isn't evidence in medicine.
Nancy Malik and the BHA keep quoting double blind studies that (they erroneously believe) support homeopathy, so it seems they have no disagreement with what constitutes evidence. Their disagreement only arises when that evidence doesn't say what they want it to say. I don't think you'll find any proper model in which the definition of evidence is "whatever agrees with my personal preconceptions."