Alternative Medicine

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

Homeopathy

Meeting the burden of evidence: How homeopathy is like plate tectonics… and how it differs

Mark Horne -
Ideas once dismissed as scientifically implausible can turn out to be true - but only if they can meet the evidentiary burden required for proof.
Cancer

Ivermectin is a genuinely great drug, but there’s no good evidence it can treat cancer

Jack Lawrence -
As online scammers and podcasters like Joe Rogan push ivermectin for all manner of serious illnesses, we have to follow what the evidence tells us.
Alternative Medicine

Causality: how to prove it scientifically, and why it matters

Edzard Ernst -
Science has long understood the dangers of attributing false causality, developing tools like Koch's Postulates and the Bradford Hill Criteria to avoid it.
Alternative Medicine

From growing basil to curing disease, pseudoscientists find support in the Qur’an

Stefano Bigliardi -
While pseudoscience is not unique to Islam - nor more pervasive within the religion - it is important to challenge where the Qur’an is used to support clearly pseudoscientific ideas.
Alternative Medicine

Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth

Michael Marshall -
As part of an NHS push for "normal" births - without medical intervention - midwives around the country have been treating labour complications with aromatherapy.
Alternative Medicine

Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist

Mauro Proença -
Autohemotherapy, involving withdrawing blood from a vein and injecting it into a muscle, has been gaining followers in Brazil.
Alternative Medicine

The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal

Edzard Ernst -
Prior to its closure, the journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retracted hundreds of papers due to concerns over their validity.
Alternative Medicine

Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information

André Bacchi -
Patients have a right to choose how they want to be treated – but for that choice to mean anything, they must be given accurate information.
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