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The Memory of Water Revisited

European homeopathic organizations have launched a campaign to convince policy makers that the proof for homeopathy has been definitively delivered, and that politicians should therefore take immediate action. [...]

Review of the Evidence for the Clinical Efficacy of Human Acupuncture

Analysis • David W. Ramey, Wallace Sampson • Vol. 5, No. 4

Common sense and scientific custom indicate that truly effective methods should show consistency across trials. However, the overwhelming evidence in acupuncture clinical trials is negative. [...]

“Alternative” Medicine: A Review of Studies Supported by Grants Awarded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Analysis • Gunnar B. Stickler • Vol. 5, No. 4

According to the NCCAM Web site, 30 center grants, 67 research grants, 14 cooperative agreements, and 4 training grants were awarded from 1993 to 1998. [...]

Stated Goals and Grants of the Office of Alternative Medicine/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Analysis • Saul Green • Vol. 5, No. 4

Considering the total amount of grant funding awarded by both the OAM and the NCCAM, few research papers containing results that can be independently reproduced have been written. [...]

“Alternative” Medicine Survey Distortions: An Early Critique

Analysis • William T Jarvis • Vol. 5, No. 4

Calling physicians’ attention to the fact that there are many different kinds of health entrepreneurs out there promoting a wide variety of potent remedies to their patients should motivate them to become better informed about this problem. [...]

Acupuncture: Another Clinical Trial Fails

Analysis • Timothy Gorski • Vol. 5, No. 2

Here is another of many articles purporting to demonstrate the clinical value of acupuncture. It is also another of many such articles that fail to support the authors’ conclusions. [...]

Autogenous Vaccine: A Defense Against the Bacterial Organism that Causes Cancer

Analysis • Saul Green • Vol. 5, No. 2

In 1947, Virginia Livingston Wheeler proposed that human cancer was caused by an infectious organism, which she observed while she was working with scleroderma patients. [...]

Postmodern Medicine

Analysis • Wallace Sampson • Vol. 4, No. 1

We present several essays from nursing, medicine, and sociology to define and describe postmodernism in common language with a minimum of esoteric philosophy and a maximum of applicability. [...]

Postmodern Promotion of Alternative Medicine*

Analysis • Dónal P. O'Mathúna • Vol. 4, No. 1

The growing acceptance of alternative medicine within the healthcare system stands as a prime example of how a nebulous philosophy like postmodernism can have significant practical effects. [...]

Living on Borrowed Authority: Postmodernism and the Methods of Presentation

Analysis • David F. Mercer • Vol. 4, No. 1

Postmodernism, the literary and philosophical movement under examination here, advances the blurring of legitimizing criteria and guideline limits on behavior. [...]

The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine

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