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Democratic Review DemocraticReview.com Defunct Owned by American Review LLC of Miami, the same company that owns American News (americannews.com), Conservative 101 and Liberal Society. [12] [14] Liberal Society LiberalSociety.com Defunct Published a fake direct quote attributed to Obama, Falsely claimed that the White House fired Kellyanne Conway.
Functional medicine was created by Jeffrey Bland, [8] who founded The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) in the early 1990s as part of one of his companies, HealthComm. [9] IFM, which promotes functional medicine, became a registered non-profit in 2001. [10] Mark Hyman became an IFM board member and prominent promoter. [8] [10]
The evidence-based medicine community has criticized the infiltration of alternative medicine into mainstream academic medicine, education, and publications, accusing institutions of "diverting research time, money, and other resources from more fruitful lines of investigation in order to pursue a theory that has no basis in biology."
Nicholas James Gonzalez (December 28, 1947 – July 21, 2015) was a New York–based physician known for developing the Gonzalez regimen (or Gonzalez protocol), an alternative cancer treatment. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Gonzalez's treatments are based on the belief that pancreatic enzymes are the body's main defense against cancer and can be used as a ...
On June 15, 2021, [29] Science-Based Medicine published a book review of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage written by founding editor Harriet Hall. [30] In her review, Hall wrote that Shrier's book had raised legitimate concerns about the science surrounding drug treatments for gender dysphoria in children and that there was a lack of quality scientific studies on the subject. [30]
Applied kinesiology (AK) is a pseudoscience-based technique [1] in alternative medicine claimed to be able to diagnose illness or choose treatment by testing muscles for strength and weakness.
Detoxification (often shortened to detox and sometimes called body cleansing) is a type of alternative-medicine treatment which aims to rid the body of unspecified "toxins" – substances that proponents claim accumulate in the body over time and have undesirable short-term or long-term effects on individual health.
[10] [29] [14] [15] [61] [74] Exemplifying this perspective, a 1998 editorial co-authored by Marcia Angell, a former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, argued that: It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride. There cannot be two kinds of medicine – conventional and alternative.