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Evidence-based medicine, alternative medicine and weaponry change through time because of selection pressure. This means that they evolve and produce a fossil record of discontinued methods and therapies.
Any method or therapy introduced into alternative medicine will face selection pressure from…
I don't know where EoR finds this stuff, but I like the way Deborah Ross thinks when she discusses offering alternative medical practitioners alternative methods of payment. Not surprisingly, they aren't interested:
There has been much fuss this week about the 'scientific status' of homeopathy,…
Et tu, Consumer Reports?
Since I was a teenager, I've intermittently read Consumer Reports, relying on it for guidance in all manner of purchase decisions. CR has been known for rigorous testing of all manner of consumer products and the rating of various services, arriving at its rankings through…
For as many benefits as the Internet and the web have brought us in the last two decades, there are also significant downsides. I could go into all the societal changes brought about by the proliferation of this new technology, not the least of which (to me, at least) is the newfound ability of…
Yes ... this one made my day today! How about paying with a glass of water that once contained money ... the more you dillute the water ... the more it's worth!
"Dr." MAS tried that with his million dollar prize to prove that the Randi million dollar prize exists.
Sometime tonight, your local PBS station will air a program Called The New Medicine documenting "integrative medicine" as it is being practiced in US academic medical centers. Apparently, the late Dana Reeve was taped as the host three months before her death from lung cancer.
After you recover from the incredible high of the FT coverage (very hearty congratulations on well-deserved recognition!), I wonder if you'd care to comment on the virtues and risks of CAM practices being offered in academic medical centers and NCI comprehensive cancer centers. I can argue both sides, but it seems that a lot of centers are getting into it simply to boost revenues since CAM services are paid primarily out-of-pocket and these patients are represented by a well-heeled demographic.
Hey Orac, an off-topic comment: The URL for The Inoculated Mind on the Skeptics' Circle schedule page seems to be incorrect.
hilarious!!