Medicine vs. Alternative Medicine : Science as a way of understanding what works in healthcare.
References
Defining Terms
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
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
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
BMJ Hoax
http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6979.full
What Alt-med offers Patients
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/spin-city-placebos-and-asthma/
Placebo and Dopaminergic Response
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
https://www.cpsbc.ca/files/u6/Complementary-and-Alternative-Therapies.pdf
Chelation therapy
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/570625
What’s The Harm?
How Can Physicians Counter Sloppy Thinking
http://www.trickortreatment.com/