Immunisation and homeopathy are often assumed to be similar; some even claim that the efficacy of the former proves the latter. They both are said to "stimulate the body's natural defences" and they ...
Although currently the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a public health challenge, the unprecedented utilization and integration of Ayush therapeutics and principles for the COVID-19 response in India ...
Today, there is a strong scientific and medical consensus that homeopathy lacks reliable evidence of efficacy. Many of the strongest rejections come, after independent evaluations of the evidence, ...
You probably heard about American Academy of Pediatrics et al. v. Kennedy et al., the law suit brought by the AAP and several other medical organisations against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr). The ...
This landmark study, often called the "Nürnberger Kochsalzversuch", is historically significant as probably the first recorded instances of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. It was ...
Our resident defender of the indefensible, DUllman, regularly comes out whith the notion that Darwin was a great fan of homeopathy. I always found this hard to believe. So, I asked AI: "What did ...
In the early 19th-century Austrian Empire, few figures held as much power over the physical and institutional health of the state as Dr. Andreas Joseph von Stifft (1760–1836) – after all, he was the ...
The regualtion of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) differs from country to country which can and does cause a lot of confusion. Here are very brief summaries of some of the countries that I know ...