(For an alternative version of theses entries, see the Short and Irreverent E-dition, part 1, sCAM [so-called Complementary & Alternative Medicine]) <\/p>\n
A acupuncture alkaline diet allopathy alphabiotics \"alternative\" health practice angel therapy animal quacker anthroposophic medicine applied kinesiology aromatherapy astrotherapy aura therapy Ayurvedic medicine B Bach's flower therapy Jon Barron bio-ching bioharmonics Blaylock, Russell Body Code of Bradley Nelson Rashid Buttar, D.O. C chelation therapy chi chiropractic Hulda Clark complementary medicine complex homeopathy coning (ear candling) Consegrity craniosacral therapy cupping <\/p>\n
D Day, Phillip dental amalgam detoxification therapies DHEA dolphin-assisted therapy Dr. Dragon Dabic E Emotional Freedom Technique Emotion Code of Bradley Nelson Dr. Fritz - \"energy healing\" Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) F facilitated communication faith healing frontier medicine functional medicine G Gerson therapy Jay Gordon gua sha H healing touch holistic medicine homeopathy Leonard Horowitz hypnosis I immune system quackery integrative medicine integrative oncology intuitive (intuitionist) intuitive healer iridology isopathy Issels Immuno-Oncology treatment J joy touch K Rauni Kilde kinergetics Kirlian photography L Lightning ProcessTM M macrobiotics magical thinking magnet therapy massage therapy Joseph Mercola microacupuncture moxibustion N natural cancer cures naturopathy Bradley Nelson neuro-linguistic programming New Age psychotherapies noni fruit and juice nosode O osteopathy P prayer psychic surgery Q quackery R Reams, Carey reflexology Rader, William C., M.D. reiki Rolfing S shark cartilage as a cancer cure T therapeutic touch thought field therapy traditional Chinese medicine trepanation U urine therapy V vibrational medicine vitamin and mineral supplements W Andrew Wakefield Joel D. Wallach, \"The Mineral Doctor\" Y Robert O. Young Z zenreiki<\/p>\n
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Myth 2. Prescription drugs are one of the leading causes of death. <\/p>\n
Myth 3. Most medical treatments have never been clinically tested. <\/p>\n
Myth 19. Medical doctors typically know nothing about nutrition. <\/p>\n
Myth 21. Faith healing works.* <\/p>\n
Myth 22. Dr. Randolph Byrd scientifically proved that prayer can heal. <\/p>\n
Myth 23. Even if Dr. Byrd failed, others have succeeded in proving scientifically that prayer heals. <\/p>\n
Myth 25. Transplant organs carry personality traits which are transferred from donors to receivers. <\/p>\n
Myth 31. Crimes, mental illness, suicides, and emergency room visits increase when there is a full moon. <\/p>\n
Myth 43. Suicide increases over the holidays. <\/p>\n
Myth 46. Switching to a low-tar cigarette will reduce one's chances of being exposed to the carcinogens in cigarette smoke. <\/p>\n
Myth 47. Vaccination*of children with the (MMR) vaccine to prevent measles, mumps and rubella causes autism.* <\/p>\n
Myth 53. Sugar causes hyperactivity in children. <\/p>\n
Myth 54. Alcohol, especially red wine, is good for your health.*(read this one carefully and to the end) and * <\/p>\n
Myth 55. A migraine is a bad headache. <\/p>\n
Myth 58. The moon can trigger ovulation and bring on fertility depending on what phase the moon was at when you were born. <\/p>\n
Myth 59. The mercury in dental amalgam is poisoning people.* <\/p>\n
Myth 60. You should drink eight glasses of water a day for good health.* One study, however, does seem to have good evidence that drinking five glasses a day is better than drinking two or fewer with respect to fatal coronary heart disease. <\/p>\n
Myth 71. A diet low in animal fat will prevent high cholesterol which will prevent atherosclerosis which will make you immune to having a heart attack. <\/p>\n
Myth 72. Pasteur renounced all his works on his death bed. <\/p>\n
Myth 73. Laetrile is an effective cancer treatment whose humanitarian discoverer has been persecuted, depriving millions of people of the benefits of this wonder drug. <\/p>\n
Myth 74. Peptic ulcers are caused by stress and eating spicy food.* <\/p>\n
Myth 83. A study was published in the Western Journal of Medicine that showed changing the letters EPHO (each letter representing a drug being used to treat small-cell lung cancer) to HOPE led to a spectacular increase in positive response to the treatment. <\/p>\n
Myths 86-89, thanks to the British Medical Journal: <\/p>\n
Myth 86. There are several effective cures for a hangover. <\/p>\n
Myth 87. People who eat late at night gain more weight than those who eat the same amount of food earlier in the day. <\/p>\n
Myth 88. More heat escapes from the head than any other part of the body. <\/p>\n
Myth 89. Poinsettias are poisonous. <\/p>\n
Myth 92. Fruit must be eaten on an empty stomach in order for the body to absorb it properly. <\/p>\n
Myth 93. Drinking cold water after meals causes cancer. <\/p>\n
Barrett, Stephen and William T. Jarvis. eds. The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993). <\/p>\n
Barrett, Stephen and Kurt Butler (eds.) A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine : A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-Healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments; edited by (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1992). <\/p>\n
Bausell, R. Barker. (2007). Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine Oxford. (review) <\/p>\n
Ernst, Edzard MD PhD, Max H. Pittler MD PHD , Barbara Wider MA. 2006. The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach. 2nd ed. Mosby. <\/p>\n
Randi, James. The Faith Healers (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989). <\/p>\n
Raso, Jack. \"Alternative\" Healthcare: A Comprehensive Guide (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1994). <\/p>\n
Sampson, Wallace and Lewis Vaughn, editors. Science Meets Alternative Medicine: What the Evidence Says About Unconventional Treatments (Prometheus Books, 2000). <\/p>\n
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