Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine

This book is about the science of complementary and alternative medicine, about how science is conducted, how it is evaluated, and how it is synthesised to arrive at a conclusion about whether CAM therapies work. In exploring this question, Barker Bausell provides an authoritative and engaging look at the nature of scientific evidence and at the logical, psychological, and physiological impediments that can confound such evidence in the world of CAM research.