Comment from Acleron
Time 9/9/2011 at 1:44 am

That should be a short debate. But I’m surprised you could get anyone to argue against it. Anyway, have fun

Comment from Ken
Time 9/9/2011 at 6:43 am

It should be even higher. There is a lot of conventional medicine that is poorly studied, and patients do suffer as a result. So both need to improve.

Comment from Acleron
Time 9/9/2011 at 12:54 pm

There is no argument that medicine should be measured against the highest standards available or that some of it is poorly validated. But that’s hardly an argument that treatments with no justification, no evidence of efficacy and very dubious safety (except of course for homeopathy) should escape those standards. And I would like to bet that the protagonists will try to play that card.

Comment from Peter Risdon
Time 9/9/2011 at 4:31 pm

As the man said, the word for alternative medicine that works is ‘medicine’. The motion is actually contradictory, in that CAM is stuff that hasn’t the same level of evidence as conventional medicine.

Comment from JeremyL
Time 10/9/2011 at 3:09 pm

Like the first commented, I’m surprised anyone would argue against this. Looking forward to hearing what their arguments are.

Comment from Acleron
Time 10/9/2011 at 10:35 pm

Looked at the agenda for the Bradford event and there appears to be a lot of woo being discussed and a lot of it isn’t particularly scientific. So your audience may not be swayed by the facts.