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Alternative medicine makers are happy to bash Big Pharma for poor testing and failed drugs, but not testing their own wares is the key to their profitability.
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Researchers find more evidence that alternative medicine practitioners are a public health menace.
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Quack extraordinaire Mike Adams has crossed a line from typical snake oil salesmanship to predatory fear-mongering.
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A premiere pediatric hospital is being awfully friendly to anti-vaccine and homeopathic cranks and quacks.
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Homeopaths are dangerous enough in developed countries. They could be a devastating malice in the third world.
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Mitchell and Webb show us what a homeopathic ER would actually look like in practice.
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When we reject centuries of medical science and research, we're effectively going back and time to make ailments we tamed into life-threatening afflictions once again.
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Don't expect your insurance company to cover homeopathic remedies anytime soon.
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It seems bizarre, but the longer a patient using alternative medicine is sick, the more converts the alternative treatments win.
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In a universe where everything is made of chemicals, "natural" is just a buzzword used to make a bigger profit.