Perhaps if alternative medicine requires belief rather than knowledge they should simply attempt to have it reclassified as a religion? At least that way it’ll get protected from all those naysayers who want to subject it to scientific analysis.

as some doctors and commissioners do not necessarily believe in meridians

Speechless, just speechless at that.
Imagine not knowing about meridians? They’re just down and to the left of your Ying, just along from your Yang, and above your chakras.

Was thinking more about the millions that have died from CJD

Is that sarcasm? Or have you just outed yourself as a subscriber to the idea that ‘obesity can cause heart attacks and death’ is just another liberal conspiracy?!

I’ll bet he thinks the globe is getting warmer and you can die from eating burgers and breathing other peoples cigarette smoke……

Nob head ! ! ! !

That subject has always been hotly disputed by many doctors, but homeopathic treatments have been operating on the reverse scale of prescribing for 200 years.

And yet, in all that time, they’re never managed to come up with a way of reliably demonstrating that it actually works.

There are similar problems with acupuncture and its acceptance, as some doctors and commissioners do not necessarily believe in meridians.

Demonstrating the effectiveness of a treatment and deducing its mode of action are entirely separate questions. The effectiveness of asprin was well-proven long before anyone figured out how it works.