Alternative Medicine and Common Errors of Reasoning
@article{Beyerstein2001AlternativeMA,
title={Alternative Medicine and Common Errors of Reasoning},
author={Barry L. Beyerstein},
journal={Academic Medicine},
year={2001},
volume={76},
pages={230–237},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:41527148}
}The author cautions potential clients of alternative treatments to be suspicious if those treatments are not supported by reliable scientific research, if the “evidence” for a treatment's worth consists of anecdotes, testimonials, or self-published literature, and if the practitioner has a pseudoscientific or conspiracy-laden approach.
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