Re: Complementary and Alternative Medicine is Mainstream

From: anon (anon_at_anon.com)
Date: 12/30/04


Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:36:18 -0500


> Mr-Natural-Health wrote:
>
>>Complementary and alternative medicine is mainstream. Scientists who
>>like to refer to themselves as quackbusters hold a minority viewpoint.
>>This conclusion is easily supported by 3 separate research studies
>>which surveyed the 125 medical schools offering a MD degree, the 19
>>medical schools offering a DO degree, and 585 schools of nuring in the
>>United States.

Meaningless. These aren't studies on whether or not CAM is valid, these
are opinion surveys measuring interest in CAM. If you surveyed a bunch
of doctors in the middle ages, they would have been big on bloodletting.



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