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What Do You Mean, Alternative?

May 29, 2007

Steven Salzberg blogs on the recent creation by the NIH of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Determining Ayurvedic medicine, just one area that the NCCAM will fund, to be a form of quackery, Salzberg discredits the NIH for doling out money to what he considers inferior projects when those funds could be going toward more traditional research. Read his opinion here.

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