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Fwd: $2.5B spent, no alternative med cures
From: Gadi Evron <gevron () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:41:58 +0300
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: BillK <pharos () gmail com> Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:15 PM Subject: $2.5B spent, no alternative med cures To: Scientific discussion of extraordinary things <skeptix () lists opn org> <http://www.physorg.com/news163859117.html> Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of them do. The center was handed a flawed mission, many scientists say. Congress created it after several powerful members claimed health benefits from their own use of alternative medicine and persuaded others that this enormously popular field needed more study. The new center was given $50 million in 1999 (its budget was $122 million last year) and ordered to research unconventional therapies and nostrums that Americans were using to see which ones had merit. That is opposite how other National Institutes of Health agencies work, where scientific evidence or at least plausibility is required to justify studies, and treatments go into wide use after there is evidence they work - not before. ---------- BillK _______________________________________________ Skeptix mailing list Skeptix () lists opn org http://www.lists.opn.org/mailman/listinfo/skeptix_lists.opn.org _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Fwd: $2.5B spent, no alternative med cures Gadi Evron (Jun 10)
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