Alternative Medicine

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

Alternative Medicine

One small step at a time, the alternative medicine industry is radicalising people

Michael Marshall -
The alternative medicine industry has built up an ecosystem that efficiently radicalises its devotees into extreme positions
Alternative Medicine

Our manifesto against pseudoscience in health challenges alt-med at a global level

Fernando Cervera -
Pseudoscience is a global phenomenon - if we want to protect the public in our individual countries, it will take global action.
Alternative Medicine

From the outset, chiropractors have held anti-vax views – sadly, not much has changed

Edzard Ernst -
Despite overwhelming evidence vaccines work, many chiropractors focus unduly on the risks, and refuse to recommend them to patients
Alternative Medicine

Institute of Biomedical Science falls for the Traditional Chinese Medicine hype

Brian Eggo -
The September issue of Biomedical Scientist magazine ignores the real story in their rose-tinted history of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Rectal ozone therapy: Brazil’s latest COVID-19 pseudoscience

Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi -
Brazil's rectal ozone therapy may sound ridiculous, but the reach of the pseudoscience movement is no joke
Alternative Medicine

Chiropractors love to claim their treatments are ‘individualised’, but they’re wrong

Sarah Hearne -
Although practitioners like to claim chiropractic is individualised, in reality patients are offered the same treatment plan, whatever their complaint
Alternative Medicine

Netflix’s (Un)Well leaves me (un)impressed

Pixie Turner -
(Un)Well's false balance and fence-sitting is a missed opportunity to demonstrate the real harms of the wellness industry
Alternative Medicine

Conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and alt-med quackery put our pets in harm’s way

Danny Chambers -
Vet Danny Chambers highlights how the aggressive promotion of alternative therapies to prevent and treat animal diseases has become widespread.
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