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Title: Edzard Ernst | MD, PhD, FMedSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd

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Please allow me to deviate today from my usual agenda, i.e. so-called alternative medicine. I feel that I should write about the contribution of war to global warming which, in turn, will inevitably affect our health as individuals and our chances of survival as humans. 2025 was the third-warmest year on record; the global average […]

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This up-date of a Cochrane Review evaluated the benefits and harms of SMT compared to (1) sham SMT/placebo intervention, (2) no treatment, and (3) other conservative interventions in people with chronic LBP (18+ years old). The authors searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, Embase, two other databases, and two trial registers […]

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It is, I think, evident to anyone reading his comments on my recent post that Dana Ullman adores my little ventures into AI. In order to please Dana even more, I tought of doing another, more focussed and arguably more telling post on an AI analysis of his work. As it seems a little unfair […]

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The objective of this study was to explore the nature of retraction notices associated with so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) focused journals. Data related to retractions in SCAM journals were extracted from the Retraction Watch Database for the period 2000-2025. The analysis found that there were 902 notices associated with 42 SCAM journals. Overall, the percentage […]<...


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I have reported several times previously on my blog that France has a problem with the promotion of unproven therapies into its routine healthcare, e.g.: No to the reimbursement of pseudo-therapies! An open letter from France Bad news for France: Patrick Hetzel, the new Minister for Higher Education and Research seems to be an anti-scientist […]

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