Medicine vs. Alternative Medicine: References

Medicine vs. Alternative Medicine : Science as a way of understanding what works in healthcare.

This talk will center on an introduction to skepticism and the role it plays in the discovery of effective medicine. It will discuss possible reasons why non-conventional modalities like homeopathy, naturopathy, and chiropractic have increased in popularity and the challenges science-based medicine has in confronting pseudo-science in healthcare.

References

Defining Terms

Samual Hahnamann’s Organon

http://www.homeopathyhome.com/reference/organon/organon.html

Deepak Chopra’s and Quantum Mechanics

http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/11/16/deepak-chopra-mangles-quantum-mechanics-again/

History of Medical Intuitives

Randi, James (1989). The Faith Healers. Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-535-0 page 10.

Integrative Medicine

http://www.skepdic.com/integratmed.html

What is Skepticism?

http://www.skepticnorth.com/2010/09/what-is-skepticism-week-1-curmudgeon-cynic-skeptic/

How Do We Fool Ourselves

Jerry Andrus

http://jerryandrus.org/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7668968624786950931

Colour Square Illusion

http://boingboing.net/2008/02/08/color-tile-optical-i.html

Led Zepplin Backwards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tREje2t8oTc

Michael Shermer TED Talk on Priming

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html

Change Blindness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY

www.theinvisiblegorilla.com

Mistakes Were Made but Not By Me

http://www.mistakesweremadebutnotbyme.com/

Aronson and Mills Initiation Study

Aronson and Mills (1959) The effect of severity of initiation on liking for a group, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 59, 177-181

Logical Fallacies

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx

Overview of the Field of Alternative Medicine

Science Based Medicine

www.sciencebasedmedicine.org

BMJ Hoax

http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6979.full

What Alt-med offers Patients

Asthma Study

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/spin-city-placebos-and-asthma/

Placebo and Dopaminergic Response

http://tauruspet.med.yale.edu/staff/edm42/papers/journal-club/Effects%20of%20expectation%20on%20placebo-induced%20da%20release%20in%20pd.pdf

Review of Benedetti’s Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMbkrev0810817

Quackwatch on NCCAM

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/nccam.html

Simon Singh

http://www.senseaboutscience.org/

What’s The Harm

BCCPS Complementary and Alternative Therapies policy

https://www.cpsbc.ca/files/u6/Complementary-and-Alternative-Therapies.pdf

Chelation therapy

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/570625

What’s The Harm?

www.whatstheharm.net

How Can Physicians Counter Sloppy Thinking

Trick or Treatment

http://www.trickortreatment.com/

Bring Unto Me the Children

1. Wikipedia. Autism. Last Update July 21 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#History

2. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Thimerosal in Vaccines. Last Updated June 3 2008. http://www.fda.gov/Cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#t1

3. Wikipedia. Epidemiology of Autism. Last update July 26 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_autism

4. Center for Disease Control. Measles outbreaks in the United States: Public health preparedness, control and response in health care settings and the community. April 02 2008. http://www2a.cdc.gov/HAN/ArchiveSys/ViewMsgV.asp?AlertNum=00273

5. The U.S. National Vaccine Information Centre. http://www.nvic.org/ This gives a mostly balanced view of vaccination. You can get data on adverse reactions of any vaccine as reported by heath care practitioners but it is mostly raw data without context or followup.