Re: Fwd: $2.5B spent, no alternative med cures

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

Cures may not be the right word.  Surgeons look at drug manufacturers with
some disdain for a reason.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Gadi Evron <gevron () gmail com> wrote:

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> 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>
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> <http://www.physorg.com/news163859117.html>
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> 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.
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> BillK
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