Quackademic medicine
Encyclopedia
Quackademic medicine is a pejorative
term used by some in the science based medicine community for “integrative medicine
” (using alternative medicine
alongside science based medicine), when considered to be the infiltration of quackery into academic medicine, the attempt to lie to patients in order to achieve a larger placebo effect, or an attempt at “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”. An example David Gorski's critique of Brian M. Berman, M.D., founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine and the holder of multiple NCCAM center grants, and other institutions, for having written "There was nevertheless evidence that both real acupuncture and sham acupuncture were more effective than no treatment and that acupuncture can be a useful supplement to other forms of conventional therapy for low back pain", and of editors and peer reviewers at the New England Journal of Medicine
for having allowed it to be published, since it effectively recommended deliberately misleading patients in order to achieve a known placebo effect.
Pejorative
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term used by some in the science based medicine community for “integrative medicine
Integrative medicine
Integrative medicine or integrative health is the combination of the practices and methods of alternative medicine with conventional medicine. The term is relatively recent, and is mainly promoted by proponents of alternative therapies in the west...
” (using alternative medicine
Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence....
alongside science based medicine), when considered to be the infiltration of quackery into academic medicine, the attempt to lie to patients in order to achieve a larger placebo effect, or an attempt at “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”. An example David Gorski's critique of Brian M. Berman, M.D., founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine and the holder of multiple NCCAM center grants, and other institutions, for having written "There was nevertheless evidence that both real acupuncture and sham acupuncture were more effective than no treatment and that acupuncture can be a useful supplement to other forms of conventional therapy for low back pain", and of editors and peer reviewers at the New England Journal of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It describes itself as the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.-History:...
for having allowed it to be published, since it effectively recommended deliberately misleading patients in order to achieve a known placebo effect.