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azazelcrowley t1_iy4qsm0 wrote

I think a distinction should be drawn between pain and comfort management VS disease treatment for these purposes. I'm broadly fine with the latter being characterized as misinformation and a problem to be dealt with, but the former is often "unproven" and in some ways unprovable except by patient reporting, and in cases where only a minority find a treatment useful for those purposes it can be difficult to study and determine, as well as ethically questionable if its simply a placebo effect assisting those who distrust medical establishments and their pills, including placebos. I dont see much of an issue with alternative pain and quality of life treatments if they are not directly medically inadvisable like quaffing bleach or something. Alternative treatment stuff should probably be cracked down on though.

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