Word: unproven
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...sell snake oil to TIME's science journalists. Or cold fusion, or any other unproven notion. "We pride ourselves on being sticklers for science, rooted firmly in the mainstream," says assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose hard-nosed science team produced this week's installment of Innovators, our monthly series on 100 people with breakthrough ideas. It was quite a departure for Phil's reporters and writers to venture into the realm of alternative medicine, where hopes proliferate and proof is often sketchy. Yet the field is booming because millions of Americans swear these therapies have given them relief...
...Though the scientific basis for non-traditional therapies is unproven, consumers have found these alternatives to be increasingly attractive...
...Both physicians and non-traditional practitioners say the next step is to use science to investigate the effectiveness of unproven therapies...
...question remains, however, how scientifically unproven therapies should be tested...
...trapped with too many expensive tech stocks, take responsibility. Come on. Weren't you being greedy? And now you want to blame Wall Street for staking and touting unproven companies? Seems to me investor demand for such stocks preceded the supply. And let's not forget that the former highflyers were initially priced well below the nosebleed levels that rabid investors sent them to. Indeed, bankers came under criticism in the early days of the bubble for not pricing IPOs high enough...