Alternative Medicine

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Alternative Medicine

“What Nonsense!” – unpacking popular pseudosciences for a Brazilian audience

Carlos Orsi -
As pseudoscience flourishes in Brazil, What Nonsense! by Carlos Orsi and Natalia Pasternak seeks to redress the balance, and push back against irrationality
Alternative Medicine

So-called alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy

Edzard Ernst -
Many people who turn to alternative medicine are also vaccine hesitant - both factors are related to a distrust of, and lack of access to, mainstream medicine
Alternative Medicine

Charles appoints alt-med fan Dr Michael Dixon as Head of the Royal Medical Household

Edzard Ernst -
Though largely unnoticed, Charles' appointment of alt-med advocate, Dr Michael Dixon, as Head of the Royal Medical Household may be telling
Alternative Medicine

How should alternative medicine practitioners be regulated?

Edzard Ernst -
If alternative medicine practitioners are to be effectively regulated, they can't regulate themselves - but nor can they be given special treatment by governments
Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine for animals: why we should keep quacks away from our furry friends

Edzard Ernst -
A recent systematic review looked at the use of 24 alternative medicine modalities on cats, dogs, and horses. The results were less than impressive.
Alternative Medicine

The Nuremberg salt test: how homeopathy failed one of the earliest ever scientific trials

Sean Slater -
One of the earliest ever randomised control trials took place in 1835, when skeptical physicians put the new-fangled homeopathy to the test
Homeopathy

Antimicrobial Resistance, homeopathy and the Soil Association

Robyn Lowe -
The Soil Association's goals to protect animal and human health, while caring for the environment, are laudable. So, why do they still lend their support to homeopathy?
Acupuncture

Acupuncture remains one of the most enduring pseudo-therapies – even though it does not work

Edzard Ernst -
Given there's no reliable evidence acupuncture works, and it has been associated with significant harm, its risks outweigh its benefits.
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