An opponent of complementary medicine (vitamins and supplement promoted beyond their proven effect) quits his academic position in protest of a 15 million dollar grant to his U,-public-health-professor-has-quit-after-his-uni-did-a-15-million-research-deal-with-swisse-2014-2 La Trobe for research from Swisse, a vit maker.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/a-public-health-professor-has-quit-after-his-uni-did-a-15-million-research-deal-with-swisse-2014-2
Read to get a sense of the hype that is so much a part of the complementary med game.
OK. I get it. We don’t want to know? I thought the problem was that there has been no research? Isn’t that the problem? Why not solve the problem with some more research? Isn’t that the way science is supposed to work?
Maybe he thought he should head the research and the U thought otherwise.
So a professor threw a hissy fit over a research university conducting research? I understand pointing out the flaws in biased research but calling the university out before they’ve even conducted any shows just as much bias. You can’t claim something is junk science before the science has been done. It’s not like the school is using public funds. We should reserve judgement untill the studies are published.
Here’s more hype from the vitamin pusher crowd:
Intravenous Vitamin C May Boost Chemotherapy’s Effectiveness
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/7330/20140205/intravenous-vitamin-c-may-boost-chemotherapys-effectiveness.htm
I say stop this Complementary Medicine research immediately!!! We already know that antioxidants cause cancer. Junkscience has made this very clear for us. Junksciece should simply take the same posture regarding the therapeutic use of nutritional supplements that the LA Times has with AGW, and save us all a lot of time.
Yeah, God forbid there’s research into the therapeutic benefit of nutritional supplements. The horror . . .