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What does it mean?
A skeptical question about whether something truly qualifies as medicine.
In plain terms
Is this really medicine?
What can you take from it?
Question if practices meet their claimed standards.

Where it applies

  • evaluating treatments
  • debating health practices

Putting it to work

  • verify medical claims

Questions to consider

  • What makes something medicine?
  • Who decides?

Another view

Sometimes intuitive judgments lack evidence.

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