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| | The term pseudomedicine overlaps partially with the terms ''[[Alternative medicine]]'' and ''Complementary Medicine'', which are used by supporters of pseudomedical treatments, as well as its critics as a synonym for pseudomedicine. Pseudomedical practitioners on the other hand often refer to the science based medicine – derogatory – as ''[[orthodox medicine]]''. | | The term pseudomedicine overlaps partially with the terms ''[[Alternative medicine]]'' and ''Complementary Medicine'', which are used by supporters of pseudomedical treatments, as well as its critics as a synonym for pseudomedicine. Pseudomedical practitioners on the other hand often refer to the science based medicine – derogatory – as ''[[orthodox medicine]]''. |
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| − | ==Typical characteristics== | + | Can you put it on the scales, please? <a href=" http://www.harborassn.com ">desyrel street value</a> prescription-requiring medication or with a product considered to be an eligible benefit. |
| − | Pseudomedical treatments can often be identified by the following characteristics:
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| − | # Providers refer to unusually extensive training and qualifications in many institutions ("with Ph.D. such-and-such")
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| − | # Drug contents are not defined precisely, their composition is changed continuously
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| − | # Claims that the "orthodox medicine" sees humans just as "chemical machines" or something like that
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| − | # A "change of paradigm in medicine is necessary, imminent or has already happened
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| − | # Claims the the method is based on modern science and refers to established concepts that are laypersons difficult to understand for laypersons like theory of relativity or (currently common) quantum mechanics (in terms of [[quantum mysticism]] )
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| − | # Concepts borrowed from the natural sciences such as energy, wave, frequency resonance or field are used in a vague way, but usually as if everyone would know what is meant with, for example, "field"
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| − | # Enumerates names of famous scientists like Planck, Bohr, Einstein and Heisenberg
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| − | # Mentions names such as Galileo and Semmelweis, as examples for researchers whose findings have been accepted only very much later
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| − | # Remote effects of drugs or healing powers are claimed and justified with an "[[holistic]] world view" ("everything is connected in the universe") or with quantum mechanics (" quantum entanglement ")
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| − | # Simple, intuitive, if not naive theories on the alleged mechanism (often in addition to referring to complicated theories such as quantum physics) are given. Examples: cancer: Starve cancer with a [[cancer diet|diet]], burn cancer with [[Hyperthermie]], remove harmful vibrations by application of reverse polarity oscillations ([[Bioresonance]])
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| − | # No contraindications and no side effects
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| − | # Treatments are applicable to many diseases (if not all) and effective in all stages of the disease
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| − | # Diagnostic- and therapy devices can not only be used to treat diseases but are also recommended for e.g. consultants, dating services, building biologists and farmers
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| − | # Measurements and concentrations are feigned to be larger or smaller by [[abuse of unit resolutions]]
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| − | See also:
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| − | * [[Ten indicators of quackery]]
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| − | * [[Rhetoric of the pseudo-doctors and marketers of dubious products]]
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| − | * [[Characteristics of ineffective technical products]]
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| | ==Examples== | | ==Examples== |