What's Eating the Small, Loud Band of Alt-Med Critics?
The author speculates on why a tiny but outspoken group of scientists continues to detest alternative medicine… More »
David H. Freedman is the author of Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us—And How to Know When Not to Trust Them. He has been an Atlantic contributor since 1998.
The author speculates on why a tiny but outspoken group of scientists continues to detest alternative medicine… More »
The author responds to Steven Salzberg's argument about the dangers of accepting alternative medicine… More »
The author replies to the directors of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine… More »
Medicine has long decried acupuncture, homeopathy, and the like as dangerous nonsense that preys on the gullible. Again and again, carefully controlled studies have shown alternative medicine to work no better than a placebo. But now many doctors admit that alternative medicine often seems to do a better job of making patients well, and at a much lower cost, than mainstream care—and they’re trying to learn from it.… More »
Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.… More »
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