Alternative Medicine Repertory

List of resources from the University of Pittsburgh

This report represents the medical/scientific literature on this subject as of June 1997.

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The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (SRAM) is the only peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to objectively analyzing the claims of "alternative medicine." The purpose of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine is to apply the best tools of science and reason to determine whether hypotheses are valid and treatments are effective. It will reject no claims because it fits, or fails to fit, some paradigm. It will simply seek justified answers to two questions: "Is it true?" and "Does this treatment work?"

Compiled by Robert T. Carroll, a professor of Philosophy at Sacramento City College, also offers a critical approach to alternative health care topics.

NCAHF is a private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems.