Doubting Marcus

If there is anything that defines alternative, complementary, integrative medicine it’s putting practice before evidence. In fact, the evidence is irrelevant to practice. Practice is philosophy-based, not science-based. Evidence is an obstacle, used only for marketing purposes, not for determining which treatments are effective. That is why they keep trying to redefine scientific evidence in medicine. They need science to change to accommodate their treatments, not conform treatments to the science.

- Steven Novella - clinical neurologist, co-founder of the New England Skeptical Society and host of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe on alternative medicine

(Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org)