The Medicine Wars rage on

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As I sigh for the billionth time, someone asks "Can't we all just get along?" On the other hand, this article is incredibly thorough and open-minded, and I hold it above most other news blurbs.

Perhaps the key to a harmonious coexistence of conventional and alternative medicines is a kind of divorce. Scientists, who are more qualified than any New Age practitioners or lay person to determine the value of unproven treatments, need to conduct research that will once and for all divorce the sensational claims of these treatments from any actual therapeutic qualities they might have. Then they have to be taken, one by one, into the laboratory. One thing is certain, however-alternative medicines can no longer be ignored.

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