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Modern medicine = treat the symptoms
Alternative= cure the ailment
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No, alternative treatments are frequently aimed at symptoms, too. Homeopathy explicitly so. And vaccines and antibiotics treat the ailment.
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HM The only way to have double blind studies is to have them funded. That takes so much money that only a drug company could afford to have this done, or the government who would never bite the hand that feeds them.
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I'd have sympathy for that viewpoint if any alternative medicines that failed double-blind studies that actually were performed despite the cost were subsequently dropped from the market. The closest I can think of is Zicam which was recalled after causing actual harm, but have any been recalled for uselessness?
That's one of the things that makes drug production expensive - if they fail then they don't get to sell it.
That's not something the alternative medicine producers have to deal with.
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Drug companies funding drug research is most certainly a conflict of interest since commercial value outweighs any effective treatment value. What is a few thousand deaths compared to 20 million symptoms masked?
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And what is a few thousand deaths due to lack of effective treatment compared to 20 million customers buying your alternative pills? Commercial value outweighs any effective testing value on the alternative side.