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# En kort guide til alternativ medisin
- URL: https://tjomlid.com/en-kort-guide-til-alternativ-medisin/
- Published: 2009-06-03T21:32:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-08T23:42:43.000Z
- Author: Gunnar R. Tjomlid
- Tags: Bloggpost, PublishedPost, #substack, #substack-type-newsletter, #substack-access-only_paid, #Import 2024-12-22 18:32

Bloggen [DC’s Improbable Science](http://www.dcscience.net/?ref=tjomlid.com) har postet en fin [oversikt over alternative behandlingsformer](http://www.dcscience.net/?page%5Fid=733&ref=tjomlid.com). Denne inneholder vel stort sett det du trenger å vite.

Og nei, denne er ikke postet under kategorien humor.

- **Homeopathy**: giving patients medicines that contain no medicine whatsoever.
- **Herbal medicine**: giving patients an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety.
- **Acupuncture**: a rather theatrical placebo, with no real therapeutic benefit in most if not all cases.
- **Chiropractic**: an invention of a 19th century salesmen, based on nonsensical principles, and shown to be no more effective than other manipulative therapies, but less safe.
- **Reflexology**: plain old foot massage, overlaid with utter nonsense about non-existent connections between your feet and your thyroid gland.
- **Nutritional therapy**: self-styled ‘nutritionists’ making untrue claims about diet in order to sell you unnecessary supplements.
- **Spiritual healing**: tea and sympathy, accompanied by arm-waving.
- **Reiki**: ditto.
- **Angelic Reiki**: The same but with added “Angels, Ascended Masters and Galactic Healers”. Excellent for advanced fantasists.
- **Colonic irrigation**: a rectal obsession that fails to rid you of toxins which you didn’t have in the first place.
- **Anthroposophical medicine**: followers of the mystic barmpot, Rudolf Steiner, for whom nothing whatsoever seems to strain credulity.
- **Alternative diagnosis**: kinesiology, iridology, vega test etc, various forms of fraud, designed to sell you cures that don’t work for problems you haven’t got.
- **Any alternative ‘therapist’ who claims to cure AIDS or malaria**: agent of culpable homicide.
- **Libel**: A very expensive remedy, to be used only when you have no evidence. Appeals to alternative practitioners because truth is irrelevant.