Alternative Medicine...

So, today i had a meeting with the college of psychologists and in one of the topics the president mentions is about a medical exhibition in wish different colleges, schools and specialists were invited, she explained that it was divided in 3 groups, medicine, psychology and alternative medicine... the president and other colleagues that assisted told that there they had things like aromatherapy, massage, music therapy, Homeopathy and Bioenergetics, to name a few.

The bad part was that the alternative medicine had way too much space compared to the other two, and that the organizers gave it the spotlight in the event and people were all over it, it really makes me sad how these people can believe in alternative medicine so blindly even when, and quoting Tim Minchin, "alternative medicine has either not been proved to work, or it has been proved not to work", as far as i know the little success that alternative medicine has can be attributed to the placebo effect rather than the treatment.

I was really pissed when they shared that little anecdote, the good part is that at least they had some people really interested in the info they were giving about the d

ifferent institutions that we work with, and that psychology doesn't have the same stigma it had a few years ago :)