What do you call healthcare that doesn't work, but is commonly used anyways? For example, Propublica's article says stents usually don't help improve patients' conditions:

https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but...

I like the term 'monopoly medicine', but maybe there's a better term.

I find your comment ironic, considering the basis of the whole articles was very alternative:

"Brainwaves were first noticed by German psychiatrist Hans Berger. In 1929, he published a paper describing the repeating waves of current he observed when he placed electrodes on people’s scalps. It was the world’s first electroencephalogram (EEG) recording — but nobody took much notice. Berger was a controversial figure who had spent much of his career trying to identify the physiological basis of psychic phenomena. It was only after his colleagues began to confirm the results several years later that Berger’s invention was recognized as a window into brain activity."

Alternative logic.