ANTISCIENCE TRENDS IN THE RISE OF THE “ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE’MOVEMENT
@article{Sampson1996ANTISCIENCETI,
title={ANTISCIENCE TRENDS IN THE RISE OF THE “ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE’MOVEMENT},
author={Wallace I. Sampson},
journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},
year={1996},
volume={775}
}R 0 P A G A N D A , C U L T U RA L R E L A T I V I S M , and other postmodern doctrines that challenge objectivity-“deconstruction,” for instanceP are integral to today’s antiscientific thinking. They are linked in a cable of thought processes that is slowly strangling medical science. They are the software through which the hardware of ineffective remedies convinces and converts. It may seem forced to identify propaganda, developed to its highest form by Hitler and Goebbels, with cultural… Expand
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