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Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Reviews (10)
25 August 2011Worth reading for the uninitiated
A bit of a beginner's guide to why alternative medicine isn't just ineffective, but actually harmful.
4 April 2011Excellent excurse into CAM, its effectiveness, and the challenges of designing medical trials
This book took on four topics and explored them admirably.
10 October 2010Amazing
It's a great book about research on alternative medicine and how each branch in the area tries to forego the fact that it's science based, but has no better effect than placebo according to science..
27 May 2009Snake Oil Science-A Must Read for Thinking People
The PhD author of this book was employed by the Complementary and Alternative Medicine branch of the National Institutes of Health to set up rigorous scientific studies to evaluate the effect of acupuncture on pain.
1 April 2009Fascinating information about alternative medicine
This is a book by Barker Bausell that discusses complementary and alternative medicine.
20 March 2009Great writing, great insights
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4 December 2008This needs to be read by everyone who confuses reality with fantasy
Snake Oil Science is required reading for everyone who thinks that alternative, i.
21 September 2008Excellent book for education on snake oil medicine
Excellent book that not only gives a clear view of how the placebo effect works but also goes into great detail on how to do proper tests as well as how certain things like false positives might come about..
13 July 2008An excellent treatise on the science of clinical trials
I am a practicing physician in Singapore and at one time, on staff teaching hematology in University College Hospital Medical School, London University and then Hong Kong University.
6 May 2008Outstanding book that should be widely read, but won't be
Why?