Calling On NCCAM To Stop Endorsing Unscientific, 'Alternative' Medicines
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 14:10
in Health & Medicine
David Gorski of Wayne State University School of Medicine and Steven Novella of Yale University, writing in Trends in Molecular Medicine, call for an end to clinical trials of "highly implausible treatments" such as homeopathy and reiki. Over the last two decades, such complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments have been embraced in medical academia despite budget constraints and the fact that they rest on dubious beliefs. read more