Some people sometimes confuse integrative medicine with alternative medicine, which has been criticized so much that some have called it "snake oil." The issue of objectively testing alternative practices is key, Arnold S. Reman, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, in an article published in The New Republic states that “there are two types of medicine, one traditional and the other unconventional, that can be combined into a new type called“ complementary medicine. ”Andrew Weil and his friends add that there are There are two types of thinking methods, or in other words two methods by which one can know whether a treatment is effective or not. In best medical practices, all potential treatments must be objectively tested, and in the end, tests will prove the feasibility of some of these treatments or not.