With 'Friends' like these.,,A Look at the Future of Integrative Medicine in Australia

摘要

In January 2012, the Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM) was launched as a new lobby group with the specific intent of arguing against the place of 'unscientific' complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in universities, in private health schemes and, it would appear, medicine itself. FSM's assault, while claiming to be scientific, was quick to use less than objective terms such as 'pseudoscience', 'nonsense' and 'quackademia' in attracting public attention upon its crusade against complementary medicines.