Re:Could Wearable Computer Radiation Be Harmful?
by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @10:30AM
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> There is no alternative medicine. Medicine is a science.
A fairly typical definition of medicine (and the one Google shows if you ask it to define medicine) is "the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery)." And the "practice" part is a lot older than the "science" part.
And, in any case, even excluding alternative medicine, the practice of modern Western medicine is (though this varies a lot from practitioner to practitioner) a lot more intuitive and less science-based than many people would like to think, and efforts by institutions with concerns about improving that are often controversial in the field.
A fairly typical definition of medicine (and the one Google shows if you ask it to define medicine) is "the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery)." And the "practice" part is a lot older than the "science" part.
And, in any case, even excluding alternative medicine, the practice of modern Western medicine is (though this varies a lot from practitioner to practitioner) a lot more intuitive and less science-based than many people would like to think, and efforts by institutions with concerns about improving that are often controversial in the field.