Dismantling the rhetoric of alternative medicine: Smokescreens, errors, conspiracies, and follies

Alternative medicine has a high social prevalence, being promoted by well organized groups that have developed an intricate rhetoric in order to self-justify in the absence of evidence. This article will analyse some of these arguments, some of their fallacies – ad populum, ad ignorantiam –, other s...

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Main Authors: Edzard Ernst, Angelo Fasce
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat de València 2018-06-01
Series:Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review
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Online Access:https://turia.uv.es/index.php/Metode/article/view/10004