groins: With all due respect, I think you have things backwards....

groins: With all due respect, I think you have things backwards. There is a widespread belief that science is "closed minded" and not option to alternatives. Nothing could be further from the truth. The very act of doing science is an embrace of the principal that we don't know everything

It is often people who sell 'alternative' medical treatments without properly studying their efficacy that "'believe' in their product or treatment and may be blind to other options"

It is science that has "an open mind that can look at new options and the ability to change ones opinion based on new information"

A medical treatment is classified as "alternative" because there is no evidence that it works (and in some, I dare say many cases there is strong evidence that it doesn't work)