Is evaluating complementary and alternative medicine equivalent to evaluating the absurd

摘要: Complementary and alternative therapies such as reflexology acupuncture have been the subject of numerous evaluations, clinical trials, systematic reviews, yet empirical evidence in support their efficacy remains equivocal. The evaluation a therapy would normally assume plausible rationale regarding mechanism action. However, examination historical background underlying principles for reflexology, iridology, acupuncture, auricular some herbal medicines, reveals founded on principle analogical correspondences, which is common basis magical thinking pseudoscientific beliefs astrology chiromancy. Where this case, it suggested that subjecting these to may be tantamount evaluating absurd.