Stephen Law

To buy tickets go to the website here: http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/ Wed 20th March 2013, 10am Alternative Medicine: Facts And Fallacies Edzard Ernst Professor Edzard Ernst explores to what extent our love affair with alternative medicine is based on good evidence and to what degree it is due to fallacious thinking and misunderstandings.  Ernst has conducted two decades of research into alternative medicines and published a number of books on the subject, including T rick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial .   His life-long interest in this area started while working in a homeopathic hospital. As a clinician, he admits to have been impressed with several alternative treatments he employed. After becoming a scientist, his attitude gradually became more self-critical. When he was appointed in 1993 as chair of complementary medicine, he decided to critically evaluate alternative medicine with the tools of science. The results of his research and ...