By oracknows on April 24, 2016.
Arguably, one of the most popular forms of so-called complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) being integrated with real medicine by those who label their specialty integrative medicine is acupuncture. It s particularly popular in academic medical centers as a subject of what I like to refer to as quackademic medicine ; that is, the study of pseudoscience and quackery as though it were real medicine. Consider this. It s very difficult to find academic medical centers that will proclaim that they offer, for example, The One Quackery To Rule Them All (homeopathy). True, a lot of integrative medicine programs at academic medical centers do offer homeopathy. They just don t do it directly or mention it on their websites. Instead, they offer naturopathy, and, as I ve discussed several times, homeopathy is an integral nay, required part of naturopathy. (After graduation from naturopathy school, freshly minted naturopaths are eve