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Monday 15 February 2016

PRINCE CHARLES: the ‘immense value’ of alternative diagnostic methods | Edzard Ernst

Non-validated diagnostic methods, like those in abundant use in alternative medicine, run an unacceptably high risk of producing false positive or false negative diagnoses. The former would be a diagnosis that the patient is, in fact, not suffering from; this enables the charlatan to get rich on treating something that is not even there. The […]

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