Alternative Medicine

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Alternative Medicine

An awareness of your body is useful, but the Alexander Technique probably isn’t

Alice Howarth -
Any benefits attributed to Alexander Technique are more than likely to be the results of exercise - the expensive programme itself is mostly an exercise in marketing
Health

Papaya and milk – the traditional Asian solution to breast augmentation

Rachel Ooi -
Societal pressures on women to have the perfect figure have led to all manner of proposed breast augmentation solutions - including, in TCM, drinking papaya mixed with milk
Nutrition

False diagnoses like ‘adrenal fatigue’ offer us simplistic solutions to our stressful lives

Alice Howarth -
According to wellness influencers, so many of our symptoms are caused by adrenal fatigue - a false diagnosis, that stops us questioning the real stresses in our lives
Homeopathy

Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation

Edzard Ernst -
Michael Frass's study raised eyebrows when it appeared to show homeopathy improved outcomes for cancer patients - until it was proven to be the result of data falsification
Psychology

Could ASMR be a possible explanation for some new age and spiritual experiences?

Mark Horne -
Reports of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, bear a striking resemblance to the way some people describe their experience of reiki... and of religion
Acupuncture

Dragons’ Den has a quackery problem that goes far beyond ear seeds

Michael Marshall -
While recent attention has understandably been on Dragons' Den's promotion of ME/cfs quackery, the BBC show's flirtation with pseudoscience runs much deeper
Acupuncture

Dragons’ Den’s uncritical promotion of ear seeds is an insult to ME/cfs patients like me

Sorrel Kinton -
The Dragons' Den Acu Seeds debacle shows how understandably desperate ME/cfs are - and how vulnerable to misinformation from authoritative sources
Alternative Medicine

Walking the alt-med tightrope when a loved one has a terminal diagnosis

Brian Eggo -
It's no surprise when people given a terminal diagnosis turn to alternative medicine - the best we can do is to care for them, and steer them away from the worst
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