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If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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