Gloryhallastoopid, the esteemed Edzard Ernst (MD, PhD, FMedSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd) has finally caught up with (or heard the pleas of) TMR - check it out:
"A cult can be defined not just in a religious context, but also as a” usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.” After ~20 years of researching this area, I have come to suspect that much of alternative medicine resembles a cult,..."
Orac was figuring things out a while back, but I think the cult phenomena weirded him out too much for him to stick with it (Ann Althouse did the same thing when Obama used it) because when you say "cult" a lot of people think you're nuts, rather than observant of the forces running through society.
You know they can (and do) say whatever they want about me:
Nobody can fuck with Edzard Ernst,...
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