Acupuncture: Getting the point
I’ve frequently written about what I like to refer to as “quackademic medicine,” defined as the infiltration of outright quackery into medical academia, particularly medical schools and academic medical centers. There’s no doubt that it’s a significant problem as hallowed institutions like Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center embrace nonsense, pseudoscience, and quackery in the name of…
Source: Respectful Insolence - Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Sports acupuncture EXPERIENCE L!FE qi quackademic medicine Selene Yeager traditional Chinese medicine Source Type: blogs
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