The Austrian news magazin PROFIL published a review of my new book. Both the book and the review are in German. I took the liberty of translating the latter for my readers who do not read German: It ...

It publishes an incredilby high volume of papers: ~50,000 in 2025. An unusual high percentage of these articles are on so-called alternative medicine (SCAM). Its article retraction rate seems one ...

Yesterday Dana commented on this blog the following: … And while you’re there, I am still waiting for anyone here to review and critique my newest contribution to the PubMed literature: Rockefeller, ...

This prospective cohort study investigated associations of coffee and tea intake with dementia risk and cognitive function. It included female participants from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS; n = 86 ...

This study was aimed at determining whether four weeks of Rhodiola rosea (RHO) supplementation improves intermittent exercise performance, post-exercise blood lactate concentrations, and ...

Debates on researching SCAM frequently hinge on the tension between theoretical plausibility and empirical testing. The central question is this: should interventions that contradict well-established ...

In recent decades, acupuncture has attracted extensive research spanning an astonishingly wide array of medical conditions, from chronic pain and neurological disorders to infectious diseases and ...

I asked the AI platform "Google Gemeni" to run a few analyses of my blog. Here is what I go: FREQUENCY OF SPECIFIC SUBJECTS While Edzard Ernst does not provide a live "leaderboard" of therapies by ...

I have often voiced my concerns that some SCAM practitioners are against vaccinations, particularly homeopath, naturopaths and integrative medicine doctors. It seems, that many go even further and ...