How should alternative therapies be evaluated? An examination of fundamentals.

If there is any primary rule of science, it is . . . acceptance of the obligation to acknowledge and describe all of re a l i ty, all that exists, e ve rything that is the case. . . . it must accept within its jurisdiction e ven that which it cannot understand or explain, that for which no theo ry exists, that which cannot be measured, predicted, controlled, or o rd e red. . . . It includes all levels or stages of knowledge, including the inchoate, . . . knowledge of low re l i a b i l i ty, . . . and subjective experience. Abraham Maslow