Fred Bauder (fredbaud@ctelco.net) [050629 01:43]:
Alternative medicine might involve things like strong suggestion and placebos, and actually work. Quack medicine involves cleaning out the last assets of the victim and their family.
This was what was more or less thrashed out on [[Talk:Alternative medicine]] - that "alternative medicine" may or may not be rubbish, but is sincere; but quackery includes knowing deception. FWIW.
- d.