Making fun of Michele Bachmann, when NCCAM is zealously protected by Democrats, only tell us how you vote. In December of 2012 when various members of Congress ranted at the CDC about vaccines and autism, the only person that academics, 84% Democrat, was the one Republican who did it.
What skeptic Dr. Steven Novella calls "Quakcademic Medicine", which is when academic institutions, which supposedly are not hijacked by greed and marketing and can engage in more pure thought, nonetheless engage in endorsements of science-y sounding mysticism .
Even Mayo Clinic, which should know better, engages in medical relativism and coddles CAM despite the fact that much of it doesn't do anything, notes Novella. How can we trust Mayo on celiac disease when to write their section on CAM they just let a CAM proponent write a PR piece? It's like letting that Wheat Belly guy write about bread or
Homeopathy remains 'alternative medicine' because, after hundreds of years it still does not do anything. It is just overpriced water with magic attributed to it.
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Novella makes another point about doctors in general: Despite claims by NCCAM (and, back to the Mayo clinic) that doctors begin to 'embrace' CAM once they understand what it is, it's actually the opposite. Doctors instead embrace it when they know little about it, in a 'well, the body is myserious, so whatever works is good' way. It's once they understand that the efficacy of CAM is lower than sugar pills that they turn on it.
