Edzard Ernst is Emeritus Professor of Complementary Medicine at the Peninsula School of Medicine, University of Exeter. He is the author of ten books on complementary and alternative medicine.
Prior to its closure, the journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retracted hundreds of papers due to concerns over their validity.
Medical researchers who cannot or will not design a clinical trial with rigour enough to avoid faulty conclusions have no place in professional science.
Given not all tested treatments turn out to be effective, we should judge trustworthiness of research based on how many negative findings researchers publish
