Rose Shapiro's excellent book, Suckers: How Alternative Medicine
Makes Fools Of Us All, won't be read by the people who would most
benefit from it. It's a potted history of alternative medicine, as
well as a thorough rebuttal of it, and her research is both
fascinating and illuminating. Did you know that traditional Chinese
medicine, described so often as dating back thousands of years, was
actually a rag-bag of ideas put together under Chairman Mao to try to
fill in the gaps left by a shortage of "the superior new medicine"? Me neither.
<http://newhumanist.org.uk/1744>Link
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