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King’s Fund reports on alternative medicine: little consensus and less progress

September 2nd, 2009 · 18 Comments

Jump to follow-up The King’s Fund recently published Assessing complementary practice Building consensus on appropriate research methods [or download pdf]. It is described as being the “Report of an independent advisory group”. I guess everyone knows by now that an “expert report” can be produced to back any view whatsoever simply by choosing the right [...]

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