The last rites for ‘alternative’ nutritional therapy?
DrEddyClinic.com wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
In yesterday’s Telegraph, Damian Thomson asks whether we’re seeing “The last rites for alternative medicine?” For Thomson
CAM’s [Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s] real problem…is shortage of proof. The information technology brilliantly exploited by unorthodox therapies is now being harnessed to spread the inconvenient truth that most of them don’t work. Sceptics in the blogosphere have assembled a global daisy-chain of links exposing the falsehoods of alternative practitioners.
Interestingly, Thomson believes that media nutritionists such as Prof Patrick Holford of Teesside University (and - in particular - Holford’s unjustified support for Wakefield’s bad science) have played an important role in CAM’s problems:
When did the tide begin to turn? I reckon the consumers of CAM got the shock of their lives when the case against MMR - in which they had invested so heavily, not to say hysterically - collapsed.
Dr Andrew Wakefield’s theory that the injection triggered autism tied together a whole […]
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