Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) - is it for real?

"Skepticism is the first step toward truth." - Denis Diderot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_and_alternative_medicine

Richard Dawkins: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins) defines CAM as a "set of practices which cannot be tested, refuse to be tested, or consistently fail tests".

Marcia Angell and J. P. Kassirer:
state that "There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work."

Fontanarosa and Lundberg:
also deny that such a thing as "alternative medicine" exists, saying there is only "evidence-based medicine supported by solid data or unproven medicine."

Margaret Fuller:
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Margaret Mead:
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Carl Sagan:
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.