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Acupuncture’s less-than-pinpoint accuracyCreative Commons Image maerzbow under CC-BY-SA licence

By The Naked Scientists (Guest)

25 March 2010

Is 'the science of alternative medicine' an oxymoron?  Read more : Acupuncture’s less-than-pinpoint accuracy

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Testing therapiesphotos.com

By Dr Elaine Weatherley-Jones (Guest)

20 October 2008

Elaine Weatherley-Jones asks whether science can bring its demands for evidence to the world of complementary and alternative therapies  Read more : Testing therapies

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The sceptical scientistphotos.com

By Professor Peter Taylor (The Open University)

17 March 2008

OU chemist Peter Taylor takes a scientific approach to alternative therapies  Read more : The sceptical scientist

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Evaluating alternative therapiesphotos.com

By Dr Toby Murcott (Guest)

17 March 2008

Toby Murcott explains the difficulties in evaluating alternative therapies - problems conventional medicine are familair with.  Read more : Evaluating alternative therapies

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Therapy On Trial: WeblinksUsed with permission

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

08 August 2006

Find out more about homeopathy with our weblinks and suggested reading  Read more : Therapy On Trial: Weblinks

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OU on the BBC: Background Brief - Therapy On Trial: The Story So FarProduction team

By The Background Brief team (The Open University)

08 August 2006

Janice Aquah asks how scientific homeopathy and other alternative therapies are  Read more : OU on the BBC: Background Brief - Therapy On Trial: The Story So Far

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Therapy On Trial: Talk the TalkUsed with permission

By The Background Brief team (The Open University)

08 September 2005

How to sound like an expert. You could do with knowing some key words, phrases and pieces of information. Just so you can cut throught...  Read more : Therapy On Trial: Talk the Talk

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Therapy on Trial: QuizUsed with permission

By The Background Brief team (The Open University)

08 September 2005

Test your knowledge of alternative therapies  Read more : Therapy on Trial: Quiz

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The Other Medicine: Does it matter how it works?BBC

By Anna Ford (Guest), Dr David Reilly (Guest), Tom Marshall Manifold (Guest), George Lewith (Guest), Dylan Evans (Guest), Katherine Armitage (Guest), Dr Peter Fisher (Guest), Phillip Ball (Guest)

06 December 2004

The science underpinning alternative treatments can be unconvincing - but should that bother us, if there are positive results? Anna Ford investigates.  Read more : The Other Medicine: Does it matter how it works?

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The Other Medicine: How do we find out if CAM works?Used with permission

By Anna Ford (Guest), Nancy Holroyd Downing (Guest), Dr Kate Thomas (Guest), Sir Iain Chalmers (Guest), Peter Morrell (Guest), Professor Edzard Ernst (Guest), Andrew Vickers (Guest), George Lewith (Guest), Hugh Macpherson (Guest), Richard Smith (Guest)

04 December 2004

 In the second programme looking at medicine beyond the mainstream, Anna Ford asks how we could set about testing the claims made for CAM.  Read more : The Other Medicine: How do we find out if CAM works?

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