What alternative health

practitioners might not tell you

 

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Professor Edzard Ernst is reportedly against regulation of alternative medicine until there is evidence. In an article in the British Medical Journal on 5th May 2007 he argued that regulation would be interpreted by the public as having sufficient evidence to recommend it. He said: "The evidence for the efficacy of chiropractic, for example, is very slim indeed. And since it has been regulated, research for establishing that it works has diminished. People are saying: 'We are fully regulated so don't ask us questions about whether this works or not.'" Science and Progress (7th May 2007)