According to Roland J. Lamarine in the following viewpoint, many people view alternative therapies as harmless options to conventional medicine. However, he argues, alternative medicine is based on unscientific, unproven theories. Lamarine asserts that alternative therapies can actually harm patients by subjecting them to dangerous treatments. Lamarine maintains that people should be skeptical of therapies that are not subjected to the same rigorous tests as are conventional medical treatments. Lamarine is on the faculty of the Department of Health and Community Services at California...
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