Proponents of an evidence-base for medicine such as the Cochrane Collaboration (founded in 1993 and from 2011 providing input for WHO resolutions) take a position that all systematic reviews of treatments, whether "mainstream" or "alternative", ought to be held to the current standards of scientific method.
Fortalere for evidensbaseret medicin såsom Cochrane Collaboration (grundlagt i 1993 og siden 2011 bidragsyder til WHO-resolutioner) har taget det standpunkt, at alle systematiske litteraturgennemgange af behandlinger, hvad enten det er "konventionelle" eller "alternative", skal holdes op mod de samme og nuværende standarder for videnskabelig metode.