A somewhat amusing story:
Tom Harkin created the National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine to "investigate and validate alternative approaches". Apparently they've only been doing the first part.
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The senator went on to lament that, since its inception in 1998, the focus of NCCAM has been "disproving things rather than seeking out and approving things."
Skeptics have complained all along that Harkin and his allies founded this office to promote alternative therapies at public expense, not to test them scientifically. Harkin's statement at the hearing explicitly confirms that hypothesis.
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It confirms the hypothesis as to the intent, but in execution it appears to be doing real scientific testing! And Harkin is disappointed in NCCAM, rather than the alternative medicine industry.
03-02-2009, 02:32 PM
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