Cures may not be the right word. Surgeons look at drug manufacturers with some disdain for a reason.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: BillK <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:15 PM > Subject: $2.5B spent, no alternative med cures > To: Scientific discussion of extraordinary things <[email protected]> > > > <http://www.physorg.com/news163859117.html> > > Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other > alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending > $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of > them do. > > The center was handed a flawed mission, many scientists say. > > Congress created it after several powerful members claimed health > benefits from their own use of alternative medicine and persuaded > others that this enormously popular field needed more study. The new > center was given $50 million in 1999 (its budget was $122 million last > year) and ordered to research unconventional therapies and nostrums > that Americans were using to see which ones had merit. > > That is opposite how other National Institutes of Health agencies > work, where scientific evidence or at least plausibility is required > to justify studies, and treatments go into wide use after there is > evidence they work - not before. > ---------- > > > BillK > > _______________________________________________ > Skeptix mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.opn.org/mailman/listinfo/skeptix_lists.opn.org > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >
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