CAM and Integrative Medicine are different lulz!

[shawmutt]

http://greenlivingideas.com/health-and-fitness/address-health-concerns-integrative-medicine

Address Your Health Concerns with Integrative Medicine

...What is the difference between CAM and Integrative Medicine? Integrative medicine is often confused with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) so it’s worth taking a few minutes to understand the difference. Complementary and alternative medicine is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine. They differ in that one is used in conjunction with conventional practices while the other is used in lieu...

Further attempts to rename/rebrand sCAM must be quashed!

[Blue Wode]

http://greenlivingideas.com/health-and-fitness/address-health-concerns-integrative-medicine

Further attempts to rename/rebrand sCAM must be quashed!


As should “info-ganda”…
Wallace Sampson (professor of medicine, Stanford, and editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine) gave a blunt assessment of what he calls “the political takeover in the U.S.” by alternative medicine.

“Never in the history of medicine has there been anything like this before,” he said. “It is an organized invasion of pseudoscience into the scientific edifice of medicine. It is pervasive, surreptitious, and purposeful. It is not a conspiracy; it is simply the way people act in groups.”

How do they do it? By using the “language of distortion” (alternative medicine instead of quackery or pseudoscience) and by demeaning science (postmodernism and relativism), he said. Proponents’ invention of language is calculated to produce a positive response. He said they have become astute in what he called “info-ganda,” the combination of information and propaganda.

They have been effective in manipulating opinion in nonprofit foundations, the news media, books, and even the medical press, which “has a bias against publishing negative articles.” They have found abundant sources of funding both from government (especially in the U.S., through the support of key congressional leaders) and from spiritual/ religious organizations. He sees the problem getting worse, not better.

http://www.csicop.org/si/2005-01/congress.html




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