Traditional medicine adherents continually state that their methods have been scientifically validated, while dismissing other approaches that have been suggested to have therapeutic or curative results.

 In fact, traditional physicians have worked tirelessly to eliminate competitors, violently targeting individuals within their own profession who have raised concerns about conventional treatments or offered alternative remedies. Surprisingly, whatever traditional medicine was popular in one decade is frequently judged inefficient, hazardous, and even barbaric in the following decade.