More uncomfortable thoughts on ‘integrative medicine’

Doctor Jonas is an important figure head of US ‘Integrative Medicine’. As we discussed in a recent post, he pointed out that many US hospital doctors fail to answer the following questions relating to their chronically ill patients:

“What matters most for this patient? What is the person’s lifestyle like – their nutrition, movement and […]

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The reality of ‘integrative medicine’ consists of little more than re-discoveries from conventional medicine, platitudes and outright nonsense

Yesterday, I received a ‘LETTER FROM DR JONAS’ (the capital lettering was his) – actually, it was an email, and not a very personal one at that. Therefore I feel it might be permissible to share some of it here (you do remember Jonas, don’t you? I did mention him in a recent post: “Considering […]

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Encyclopedia of American Loons: #1802: Wayne Jonas

Wayne B. Jonas is a family physician and one of the most influential, powerful and dangerous promoters of quackery and woo in the US, partly because he undeniably has his credentials in order and often manages to play the role of an apparently serious researcher (despite publishing in pseudo-journals like The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine; e.g. the one discussed here). He is the current president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, one of the foremost proponents of integrating fake medicine into medicine ... >> Encyclopedia of American Loons: #1802: Wayne Jonas