Fred Bauder (fredbaud(a)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.