Edzard Ernst

摘要

You have been described as a quack-buster for your work testing alternative medicine. Is that a fair description of what you do? I don't like the title quack-buster at all. I think it's wrong. I see myself as a scientist. My remit was to conduct rigorous research into the effectiveness, safety and cost of complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs). That is not the role of a quack-buster. The results are often negative, but not always. We discovered 20 alternative treatments that work better than placebo. We also found that some CAMs do more harm than good.