This study aimed to examine the effects of Reiki on anxiety, depression, comfort, and breastfeeding outcomes in women undergoing cesarean section. A randomized controlled trial design was employed, ...

This systematic review updated adverse events (AEs) reporting in persons aged > 55 years who received chiropractic treatment, including spinal manipulation. A team of mostly chiropractors and ...

Austria’s medical establishment still offers an official diploma in homeopathy. The Österreichische Ärztekammer (ÖÄK), the AUSTRIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIAATION, still lists its “Komplementäre Medizin: ...

This study evaluated the effect of Bach Flower Remedies Therapy on the hope and quality of life of people with advanced cancer. It was designed as a randomized, triple-blind (1:1) clinical trial in a ...

Science depends on self-correction. Its greatest strength isn’t that researchers are superhuman and never make mistakes – we all make them with embarrassing regularity – but that mistakes are exposed, ...

Democratic communication crucially relies on a shared acceptance of facts, on institutional norms, and on mutual respect among political opponents… or at least it should rely on such factors. In ...

Steven Charles Witkoff is an American real estate investor, former attorney, the founder of the Witkoff Group, and Trump’s envoy for negotiating peace. He is the sort of man who walks into a ...

Many therapies exist for the treatment of chronic low back pain (LBP), including spinal manipulative therapy (SMT), which is a worldwide, extensively practised intervention. The effectiveness of SMT ...

On this blog, we have repeatedly discussed the devastating effects of Trump’s policies on science, e.g.: Post-WWII American scientific dominance has historically rested on three structural pillars: ...

In the scientific investigation of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM), the boundary between incompetence and research misconduct is rarely a sharp dividing line. Rather, it is a threshold crossed ...

I was quickly reminded, after publishing yesterday's post, that I have left out may important types of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM). I do appologise! It was not my intention to discriminate ...

In a triumph of courage over incontinence, President Donald J. Trump last week confronted the gravest threat to national security: a member of the dreaded "Luegenpresse" (a reporter) asking a ...