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| | Metaphysical Dictionary Introduction |
 | | In writing this book I intended to expound not the methods of medical alternativism, but medical alternativism itself: By conveying the central ideas of hundreds of alternativist methods, I hope to make clear that alternative healthcare is a "melting pot" of religion, occultism, folklore, escapism, parapsychology, pop psychology, pseudoscience, and medical guesswork. |
 | | It may seem cavalier to judge a method solely on the basis of the theory that underlies it, the method's context, its history, and the credibility or implausibility of claims for the method. |
 | | Relatively few of the unnaturalistic methods of medical alternativism have been the object of scientific experimentation, and these few have, at best, proved to be of questionable medical utility. |
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