Here's why *real* medicine is different than woo:

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123. No, it uses court records and newspaper reports

You asked for evidence that your beloved small medicine harms people, I provided it. As to anecdotal evidence? You seem happy enough to use anecdote to support the incompetent claims of purveyors of snake oil.

Now account for the success of science based medicine.

Now account for the poisons in "traditional" medicines.

Now account for the deaths caused by incompetent Chiropractors - please read Simon Singh's article on this (link goes to an extract on a site that provides more evidence of the nonsense that is alternative medicine)

Now account for the tiny numbers of people harmed by science based medicine as opposed to the tiny fragment of humanity benefited by the "alternative".

Account for the decline in perinatal mortality of both mothers and children - because "alternative" and "traditional" medicine had frock all to do with it.

Account for the massive perinatal mortality in countries dependent upon "traditional" and "alternative" medicines and their equally stunning death tolls in non-maternity illnesses.

Your bogyman, Big Pharma, oversells its products but every manufacturer does that and at least Big Pharma is forced to reduce their claims when they are shown to be false by science - or is science part of the conspiracy as well?