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The world is filled with alternative health skeptics. A number of them are medical doctors, but some of the most vocal are self-appointed bloggers. In this newsletter, Jon takes on these bashers of the alternative health community who claim to have science and logic on their side. Don't be fooled. As you will learn in this newsletter, their rantings are often unscientific, illogical, and downright dangerous. Just because someone claims to be an authority doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. Blindly following their advice could cost you your life. Learn how to judge the facts and not just the claims. (Click here to read article...)
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Kristen Barron
 Rebutting a Skeptic
by Jon Barron
Several weeks ago, the staff here at the Foundation brought to my attention Robert Carroll's "Skeptic's Dictionary" website that focuses on "exploring strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions." High on the site's list is alternative medicine. As the site says, "Some will be harmed by [alternative medicine] AM and many people will benefit from it, but the entire benefit from AM comes from the placebo effect and the reduction of stress hormones due to the calming effect of good ritual" -- a rather sweeping indictment, I must say. In any case, the reason the staff brought it to my attention is that there is now a featured page on the site -- dedicated to me. When I read the page, I found it uproariously funny, filled with misstatements, distortion of fact, and packed with innuendo, and a number of juvenile comments -- surprising, really considering that the site's author is a teacher of "logic" and "critical thinking," albeit at a city college. In any case, the staff insisted we craft a response, even though the site has no facility for leaving comments, and the site says that it will only rarely post them anyway. Nevertheless, I wrote one up, which the staff then toned down and sent on to Dr. Carroll (Ph. D.). The rebuttal was never published, and no response to the email was forthcoming from Dr. Carroll.
My feelings weren't hurt -- and I'm still mostly amused. As a general rule, we pay no attention to people who have negative things to say about me or the Baseline of Health Foundation website. After all, we have one of the most trafficked alternative health sites on the internet, and our subscribers include reporters and health editors from large media organizations around the world including Reuters, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, Bloomberg News, the NY Times, the LA Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, health ministers from numerous countries, a number of people in the US government, 15 people at NASA, and a large number of medical doctors and clinics. A dissenting voice every now and then comes with the territory and isn't worth worrying about, but I felt that Mr. Carroll had himself proffered some "dangerous delusions" that are commonly believed in the anti alternative health world. And it was those delusions that I had addressed in my response.
In any case, since Dr. Carroll chose not to publish the response, we now will.
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