Alternative medicine Quote by 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

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

— Tim Minchin

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

— Richard Dawkins

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

— Anton Chekhov

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs…

— Leon Chaitow

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

— Marcia Angell

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

— Anton Chekhov

The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

— William Penn

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there…

— Robert Atkins