Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Bolo Boffin

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4. NCCAM is responsible for less than one-half of 1% of the NIH budget.

Wed Dec 28, 2011, 12:24 AM

Dec 2011

And it deals with a $34 billion industry. As far as I can see uses strict scientific testing (at least under President Obama) and has always concluded that the alternative treatment is no better than placebo, if it is even that good.

On the other hand, there's Tim Minchin's deserves-to-be-famous quote: "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proven to work? Medicine."

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