Alternative Medicine

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Alternative Medicine

Being Reasonable: what we can learn from people who hold fringe beliefs

Michael Marshall -
When it comes to engaging with fringe beliefs, it's important to remember that people don't change their mind overnight, or based on one conversation
Chiropractic

Chiropractic’s life-saving claims are just another flight of fancy

Edzard Ernst -
A viral post from a chiropractor claiming to have saved the life of an airline passenger further demonstrates that alt-med practitioners have no idea of their own limitations
Alternative Medicine

Regulators take action against dentist offering applied kinesiology and cranial osteopathy

Shaun Sellars -
By striking off a dentist making misleading health claims, the GDC and High Court have sent a message to other dentists on the fringes of the profession
Alternative Medicine

Veterinary Homeopathy: Is the bark worse than the bite?

Robyn Lowe -
Once owners have been persuaded to put their faith in alternative treatments like homeopathy, it can be extremely hard for veterinary professionals to change their mind.
Alternative Medicine

Homeopathy clearly doesn’t work, so why do some patients put such faith in it?

Michael Marshall -
Patients, frustrated by a lack of answers in conventional medicine, sometimes turn to homeopathy - even though it offers even less hope of being effective
Alternative Medicine

Homeopathy goes nuclear: how the homeopathic industry remains detached from reality

Edzard Ernst -
Homeopaths around the world are offering remedies to protect against radiation, petitioning the WHO, and calling for wider use of their inert sugar pills
Alternative Medicine

Gerson Support Group cancer ‘cure’ charity removed from register by Charity Commission

Michael Marshall -
The Gerson Support Group failed to meet the Charity Commission's public benefit test - and it's not the only CAM charity that will fail to clear that hurdle
Alternative Medicine

Echo chambers create an illusion of consensus around medical misinformation

Michael Marshall -
Patients can find themselves beset from all sides by medical misinformation - and that constant repetition can make it feel like claims of miracle cures have something to them
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