Even skeptics need to take a break every so often. I am taking mine now. Thanks for your comments and emails. I’ll be back at my post late July.
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The other side of alternative medicine
The tragedy of alternative medicine is the in the pain, suffering and death it causes by promoting cures that don’t work to the gullible and the desperate. Much of the time, this practice is conducted by hucksters and hacks out to separate people from their wallets. Today, however, I was reminded that some people promoting alternative medicine are earnest in their efforts to help people.
The sad case of Abraham Hoffer
The reminder came by way of the obituary of Dr. Abraham Hoffer, published in the Sunday, June 07 edition of the Calgary Herald. Dr. Hoffer was a Canadian psychiatrist who, according to the Calgary Herald, pioneered the use of LSD to treat alcoholics, discovered the ability of the vitamin niacin to lower cholesterol levels and developed a mega vitamin therapy for treating schizophrenia – a therapy largely rejected by the psychiatric profession. Read the rest of this entry »