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Alternative medicine refers to practices that aim to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but that by definition lack biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or supporting evidence of effectiveness. Such practices are not part of evidence-based medicine. Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternative medicine | Claims | Alternatives to science-based medicine | 1.00 | infobox |
| cancer or HIV infection | instance of | especially for diseases that are not expected to get better by themselves | 0.80 | text |
| multiple studies have shown significantly worse outcomes if patients turn to alternative therapies | instance of | especially for diseases that are not expected to get better by themselves | 0.80 | text |
| Gorski | instance of | David Gorski has described integrative medicine as an attempt to bring pseudoscience into academic science-based medicine with skeptics | 0.80 | text |
| David Colquhoun referring to this with the pejorative term | instance of | David Gorski has described integrative medicine as an attempt to bring pseudoscience into academic science-based medicine with skeptics | 0.80 | text |
| herbs | instance of | as in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature | 0.80 | text |
| foods | instance of | as in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature | 0.80 | text |
| non-vitamin supplements | instance of | as in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature | 0.80 | text |
| megavitamins | instance of | as in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature | 0.80 | text |
| animal | instance of | as in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature | 0.80 | text |
| fungal products | instance of | as in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature | 0.80 | text |
| and minerals | instance of | as in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature | 0.80 | text |
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