Alternative Medicine

News, commentary, criticism, analysis, and research from complementary and alternative medicine.

Cancer

The high price of anti-science paranoia and fake cancer-cure conspiracies

André Bacchi -
Patients who choose to use complementary medicine are troublingly likely to refuse conventional medicine – at great personal cost.
Alternative Medicine

Rights over regulation? The moral case against legalised snake oil

Aaron Rabinowitz -
Whenever the regulation of pseudoscience is raised, we can reliably expect to hear the same objections – none of which justifies deceiving vulnerable people
Wellness

Superficial empowerment: the hidden cost of TikTok’s skincare obsession

Olivia Olin -
TikTok trends may claim skincare routines are empowering self-care, but the message they send is that women – even young girls – should be judged on their looks
Alternative Medicine

The dangers of flawed clinical trials

Edzard Ernst -
Medical researchers who cannot or will not design a clinical trial with rigour enough to avoid faulty conclusions have no place in professional science.
Alternative Medicine

Controversy over Afro-Brazilian practices exposes the Brazilian alt-med glass ceiling

Carlos Orsi -
Afro-Brazilian healing traditions are rightfully omitted from Brazilian healthcare systems - and other pseudoscientific treatments should be, too.
Alternative Medicine

If pseudoscience actually worked, scientists would be first in line to profit

Slava Amanatski -
Scientists don't reject pseudoscience because there is no profit in it - scientists would thrive on having novel fields to explore
Alternative Medicine

From the archives: the ‘Synchro-Energiser’ – a pseudoscientific panacea?

Michael Heap -
From the archives in 1992, psychiatrist Mike Heap looks at the Synchro-Energiser, a high-tech computer-driven 'brain balancer'.
Alternative Medicine

Are nanoparticles a turning point for homeopathy? Don’t count on it

Edzard Ernst -
A new paper posits the nanoparticle theory of homeopathy in an ongoing quest to find a mechanism of action for the pseudoscientific treatment
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