[WikiEN-l] Re: Pseudoscience category - GSPOV

Tue Jun 28 15:57:34 UTC 2005

Fred Bauder (fredbaud at ctelco.net) [050629 01:43]:

> Alternative medicine might involve things like strong suggestion and  
> placebos, and actually work. Quack medicine involves cleaning out the  
> last assets of the victim and their family.

This was what was more or less thrashed out on [[Talk:Alternative
medicine]] - that "alternative medicine" may or may not be rubbish, but is
sincere; but quackery includes knowing deception. FWIW.

- d.