Alternative medicine Quote by Richard Dawkins

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

— Tim Minchin

If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become…

— Richard Dawkins

It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional…

— Marcia Angell

The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery…

— Edzard Ernst

“Complementary or alternative medicine is really just unproven medicine. That’s not an unfair criticism; that’s just what it is. When an alternative medicine is…

— Guy P. Harrison

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

— Mehmet Oz

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

“Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best of both…

— Candess M. Campbell

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

— Andrew Saul

Mind-body medicine should not be an 'alternative,' nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their training.

— Bernie Siegel

You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I…

— Marcia Angell

“You can blindly accept the current medical treatment as prescribed by your doctor, or you can question it and develop a better treatment yourself.”

— Steven Magee