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Time for Naturopathic Medicine Week 2014, a k a Quackery Week

Time for Naturopathic Medicine Week 2014, a k a Quackery Week
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A naturopath s got to know his limitations, but naturopaths never do

It's no secret that I'm not a big fan of naturopathy. It is, as my good bud Kimball Atwood has said, a prescientific system of medicine rooted in vitalism, the idea that there is a "life energy" and a "healing power of nature." Naturopaths invoke very simplistic concepts to explain the cause of disease, such as "toxins," widespread food allergies, gluten, imbalances in qi (the life force energy), and many other pseudoscientific principles.

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First China, next the world: The Chinese government gives a big boost to traditional Chinese medicine, just like Chairman Mao did

First China, next the world: The Chinese government gives a big boost to traditional Chinese medicine, just like Chairman Mao did
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Integrative medicine : The lure of the shaman healer

Quite to my surprise, apparently I've become fairly well known as a critic of so-called "integrative medicine," that which used to be called "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) but whose name was changed because its practitioners didn't want to be "complementary" to anything. Rather they wanted their woo to be co-equal with science-based medicine (SBM).

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Quackademic medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

The Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) doesn’t like me much. I understand. I haven’t exactly been supportive of the group’s mission or activities. So it wasn’t surprising that SIO wrote letters trying to rebut a Perspectives article on “integrative oncology” that I published in Nature Reviews Cancer two years ago.

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