Gelotology
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Gelotology is the study of laughter and its effects on the body, from a psychological and physiological perspective. Its proponents often advocate induction of laughter on therapeutic grounds in alter
Two girls laughing
Alternative medicine
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Alternative medicine refers to practices that aim to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but that by definition lack biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or supporting evidence of
Marcia Angell: "There cannot be two kinds of medicine – conventional and alternative."
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Q: What do you call Alternative Medicine that survives double-blind laboratory tests? A: Regular Medicine.
Acupuncture involves insertion of needles in the body.
"They told me if I took 1000 pills at night I should be quite another thing in the morning", an early 19th-century satire on Morison's Vegetable Pills, an alternative medicine supplement