Alternative Medicine

News, commentary, criticism, analysis, and research from complementary and alternative medicine.

Alternative Medicine

Chiropractors love to claim their treatments are ‘individualised’, but they’re wrong

Sarah Hearne -
Although practitioners like to claim chiropractic is individualised, in reality patients are offered the same treatment plan, whatever their complaint
Alternative Medicine

Netflix’s (Un)Well leaves me (un)impressed

Pixie Turner -
(Un)Well's false balance and fence-sitting is a missed opportunity to demonstrate the real harms of the wellness industry
Alternative Medicine

Conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and alt-med quackery put our pets in harm’s way

Danny Chambers -
Vet Danny Chambers highlights how the aggressive promotion of alternative therapies to prevent and treat animal diseases has become widespread.
Alternative Medicine

Don’t believe what you think! Examining misinformation about so-called alternative medicine

Edzard Ernst -
What follows is a slightly modified and abbreviated version of the introduction to Professor Edzard Ernst's recently published book, Don't Believe What You Think. Why...
Alternative Medicine

NHS Lincolnshire Reiki-d over the coals for ‘Spiritual Healer’ job ad

Brian Eggo -
NHS Lincoln's ad for a Spiritual Healer rightly deserved criticism, but do these alternative health charities expose a more worrying gap in our care for cancer patients?
Skepticism

Coronavirus, conspiracy, challenges and compassion

Michael Marshall -
Our new editor Michael Marshall talks about the challenge of countering coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theory, and why compassion is such an important aspect of skepticism.
Alternative Medicine

Dying to believe: how Gerson therapy claims jeopardise cancer patients

Michael Marshall -
Michael Marshall reports from a "cancer cure" seminar where patients were explicitly told to give up their chemotherapy in favour of disproven treatments.
Alternative Medicine

Diluting Homeopathy, even further: the campaign to end NHS homeopathy

Michael Marshall -
The NHS has been funding homeopathy for years, but a campaign by the Good Thinking Society has been slowly pushing that back
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