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Reply to: The validity of alternative medicine

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Strasser replies:

Brown has it exactly right: history can teach us important lessons. Unfortunately, he misreads the muse's clear instructions—for example, to remember that pill peddlers have historically been unconcerned with conflicts of interest, that they have made overreaching claims on the basis of limited studies while ignoring contradictory evidence, and that they have rarely hesitated to boast they have evidence about the efficacy of their remedies1.

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