Assaulting alternative medicine: Worthwhile or witch hunt?

Ray Moynihan

doi:10.1136/bmj.e1075

Assaulting alternative medicine: Worthwhile or witch hunt?

Ray Moynihan

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Abstract

Fresh from its successes in the United Kingdom, the campaign to close down complementary and alternative medicine courses at universities is moving down under. A new group called the Friends of Science in Medicine wants to stop what it calls “pseudoscience” on campus, and vice chancellors at many of Australia’s universities are in its sights. So is this a reasonable reassertion of scientific principles or a bellicose, tribal attack on the competition?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e1075
Journal	British Medical Journal
Volume	344
Issue number	7844
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e1075
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2012
Externally published	Yes

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