Q&A: Healing or Seduction
Healing or Seduction
Question
Good morning. Following your recommendation, I read the book and found it very interesting. What bothered me was that even in conventional medicine, where the effectiveness of medications has been proven in controlled trials, there are quite a few patients for whom the medications did not help (statistics). So in my opinion, the categorical statement that alternative treatments are ineffective should have been balanced by the authors with the known fact that conventional treatment also does not always help—and the proof is the people who die from diseases (and the patients enter states of anxiety and depression).
Answer
Are you sure you read it? It seems to me that he explains there quite well that there is no medical procedure that works all the time. Scientific testing examines the statistical significance of the results, not whether they work one hundred percent of the time. Alternative methods do not have statistically significant results; it is not merely that they do not always work.