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If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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