Health and related issues

Alternative medicine:
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Related issues:

The placebo effect.
The randomised, double blind, placebo controlled study.
The gold standard in medical testing. Why is it so important?
Testing and alternative medicine.
How do ineffective treatments become accepted as real?
Why do people use alternative medicine?
Alternative treatments cannot pass clinical trials, so who uses them and why?
The mystical nature of alternative medicine.
A look at the common theme in alternative medicine and what makes many people so critical of them.
It worked for me.
Why some people think that they "know" treatments work.
It Works!!!
A critical look at why, despite a multitude of failures, there are always new claims proving that alternative remedies work after all.
How ineffective treatments appear to work.
The art of scaremongering.
A look at how we can be duped by propaganda.
It works in animals.
An examination of claims that alternative treatments work in animals.