Snake Oil Science
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Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a book by R. Barker Bausell, a statistician and professor in the Department of Organizational Systems & Adult Health at the school of nursing at the University of Maryland with an interest in placebos.[1]. The essence of the book, backed by considerable research in the medical literature, is that complementary and alternative medicine, if it works at all, works by the placebo effect. There is a section, "How to select a placebo therapy that works."
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External links and further reading
- R. Barker Bausell, Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Oxford University Press, USA (October, 2007), hardcover, 352 pages, ISBN 0195-31368-2 ISBN 978-0195-31368-0
- "The Lure of Treatments Science Has Dismissed" Book review by Abigail Zuger, M.D. in The New York Times December 25, 2007
- Customer reviews on Amazon
