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...cine: Definitions|date=2008-12-01|access-date=2014-04-20|publisher=[[World Health Organization]]}}</ref> Traditional medicine is often contrasted with [[Evid ...o 80% of the population relies on traditional medicine for their [[primary health care]] needs. When adopted outside its traditional culture, traditional med

| image = Deepak Chopra by Gage Skidmore.jpg ...antum healing', which involves 'healing the bodymind from a quantum level' by a 'shift in the fields of energy information', and which drives crazy peopl

...dvanced by persons who have no traditional academic science background, or by researchers outside the mainstream discipline.<ref name=Fried95>{{cite book ...covers everything from novel [[hypothesis|hypotheses]] which can be tested by means of the [[scientific method]] to wild [[Ad hoc hypothesis|ad hoc hypot

| claims = "Like cures like", dilution increases potency, disease caused by [[miasm]]s. ...-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420234704/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10003680/Homeopathy-is-nonsense-says-new-chief-scientist.html|ar

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...orous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to [[Peer review|evaluation by other experts]]; absence of systematic practices when developing [[Hypothes ...ing science from pseudoscience has practical implications in the case of [[health care]], [[Expert witness|expert testimony]], [[Environmental policy|environ

...icine, which employs the [[scientific method]] to test plausible therapies by way of [[Guidelines for human subject research|responsible and ethical]] [[ ...of this bias, especially for diseases that are not expected to get better by themselves such as [[cancer]] or [[HIV/AIDS|HIV infection]], multiple studi

..., or the all-seeing eye of God, seen here on the US$1 bill, has been taken by some to be evidence of a conspiracy involving the [[Founding Fathers of the ...1630 |quote=''"explanations for important events that involve secret plots by powerful and malevolent groups"''}}</ref><ref>{{Cite OED |conspiracy theory

...oldest astrological systems still in use, can trace its roots to 19th–17th century BCE [[Mesopotamia]], from where it spread to [[Ancient Greece]], [[Ancient ...lief in astrology, yet Western astrology is far from dead, as demonstrated by the strong popular following it gained in the 1960s.}}</ref>

...schools of thought.{{sfnb|Andrews|2013b|pp=10-17}} In the early twentieth century, Chinese cultural and political modernizers worked to eliminate traditional ...ng|thumb|The Compendium of Materia Medica is a pharmaceutical text written by [[Li Shizhen]] (1518–1593 CE) during the [[Ming dynasty]] of China. This

...ch purportedly depicted [[ghost]]s or spirits were popular during the 19th century.]] ...han can be accounted for in terms of flesh, blood, atoms, and molecules. A century and a half of parapsychological research has failed to yield evidence to su

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