Dr. RW talks about how the absurd (aka complementary and alternative medicine) is often looked at uncritically:

Detractors are fond of saying ““but medical students need to know about these things”” or ““they’Â’re doing research”. Trouble is, much of this so called “education and research” amounts to little more than uncritical promotion of quackery. I’Â’ve given examples before, and the authors of the MJA piece make the case effectively. They cite data, for example, that of the 175 medical school CAM courses in existence only 4 take a critical approach. This means that the vast majority of curricula promote unproven and implausible methods, implicitly if not directly. Moreover, Medline abstracts overwhelmingly promote, and few if any critique CAM. They also note that the NIH web pages link only to promotional CAM sites as opposed to objective critical sites like Quackwatch.

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