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E. Ernst, "Winnowing the Chaff of Charlatanism from the Wheat of Science", Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 7, Article ID 413258, 2 pages, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nen089
Winnowing the Chaff of Charlatanism from the Wheat of Science
Abstract
Experts and lay people alike can sometimes find it difficult to demarcate the absurd. Here I propose a set of criteria that may be helpful in achieving this in the realm of healthcare: falsifiability, plausibility and some hallmarks of pseudoscience. Applying this method is unlikely to be fool-proof but it might be a valuable aid in discriminating credible from incredible health claims.
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Copyright © 2010 E. Ernst. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
