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Don’t Believe What You Think

Jun 19, 2020Harriet A. Hall, MDAlternative Medicine, Book Reviews, Critical thinking, Diagnostic tests & procedures, Science-based Medicine Blogbias, bogus diagnostic methods, Edzard Ernst, misinformation, scam, so-called Complementary and Alternative Medicine

A new book by Edzard Ernst provides a concise course in critical thinking as well as a wealth of good science-based information to counter the widespread misinformation about SCAM. Edzard Ernst was once a practitioner of alternative medicine. As the world’s first professor of complementary medicine (at the University of Exeter, UK) he led a

Weston Price’s Appalling Legacy

One of our readers requested a post about the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF). I knew it was not a trustworthy source of medical information, but I had not imagined just how atrocious it really was. After spending some time on the website, I realized that it is not just a cornucopia of false information about