Dismantling the rhetoric of alternative medicine: Smokescreens, errors, conspiracies, and follies
Alternative medicine has a high social prevalence, being promoted by well organized groups that have developed an intricate rhetoric in order to self-justify in the absence of evidence. This article will analyse some of these arguments, some of their fallacies – ad populum, ad ignorantiam –, other s...
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| Main Authors: | Edzard Ernst, Angelo Fasce |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat de València
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review |
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| Online Access: | https://turia.uv.es/index.php/Metode/article/view/10004 |
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