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Acupuncture, 12, 203-207, 282, 336
Anthroposophical medicine, 228-232, 239, 240
Apothecaries, 33, 160, 198, 216, 241, 242, 375
Bayes, Rev. Thomas, 115,125
Beecher, Henry, 320, 321
Big Charma, 15, 136, 351
Big Pharma, 15, 16
British Medical Association (BMA), 22, 25, 29, 35, 36, 121, 127, 141, 143, 169, 176, 261, 346, 353; policy on homeopathy, 24
CAM/camistry, 6, 8, 10, 20, 139, 140
Camees, 12, 42, 49, 90, 114, 194, 204, 245, 282, 284, 291, 361, 366
Camists, 8, 11-15, 39, 41, 91, 244, 261, 269, 273, 280, 285-290, 296, 303, 308, 323, 369
Charlatan, 16, 30, 34, 61, 72, 78, 86, 114, 117, 137, 150, 181, 212, 249, 269, 272, 315, 323, 340, 349
Chiropractic, 10, 30 -32, 1140, 179-196, 217, 223, 228, 234, 282, 314
College of Medicine, 10, 29-31
College of Physicians, The Royal (RCP), 33, 80, 82
College of Surgeons, The Royal (RCS), 16, 63, 104, 118, 352, 357, 375
Colquhoun, David, 9, 25, 149, 197, 203, 363
COM, 17, 20, 22, 27, 84, 138-140, 222
Condimentary medicine, 310, 330
Conflation, of type I and type II effects, 27, 362
Critical thinking, 270, 288
Dawkins, Richard, 5, 18, 20, 45
Denial/denialism, 301, 302, 306, 308, 358
Dopamine, 268, 278
Evidence, 1-372
Evidence- based medicine/EBM, 117, 122, 124-128
Effects of CAM/Camistry, 27, 30, 31, 34, 137, 139
Effects, placebo, 34,44, 49, 134, 176, 205, 206, 207, 226, 228, 234, 235, 252, 273, 287, 303, 309, 313-335, 341, 353, 358, 360-372
Ernst, Edzard, 5, 18, 30, 31, 36, 212, 277, 309,
Ethics, 14, 16, 28, 32, 34, 73, 83, 143, 144, 251, 336,
Faith, 4, 27, 42, 47, 75, 79, 115, 128, 130, 133, 134, 154, 161 (and homeopathy), 173, 183, 192, 223, 241-254, 258-263, 277, 294, 302, 326, 346, 355
General Chiropractic Council/GCC 31, 32, 191, 192, 195
General Medical Council/GMC, 21, 33, 34, 114, 143, 183, 192, 263, 269, 285, 348, 353, 357, 375
Godlee, Fiona, 31, 97, 124, 348
Goldacre, Ben, 100, 110, 136, 175, 196, 305, 347, 353, 359
Harm (caused by camistry), 18, 249, 253, 366-7
Health Professions Council/HPC, 7, 25
Herbalism, 197-202
Holism, 9, 90, 91, 144, 165
Homeopathy, 28, 63, 103, 117, 150-178, 276,287, 335, 337, 370
Hypnosis, 50, 58, 176, 303-318
Integrated medicine, 8, 22, 23, 131, 138, 142, 241
Integrative medicine, 1, 30, 124, 139, 149, 207, 369
Johrei, 209,212, 213, 353
Joint replacement, 1, 281
Lewis, Andy, 169, 172, 207, 351, 360
Magic Circle, The, 16, 259, 260, 263, 271, 281, 344, 352, 375
Marshall, Michael (Good Thinking Society), 174
Mesmer, Anton, 50-58, and Hahnemann – 148
Mountebank, 272, 340
Nightingale, Florence, 21, 116, 126
Nightingale Collaboration, 17, 117, 192, 205
Osteopathy, 10, 179-183, 192, 193, 223, 282
Palmer DD and BJ, 179 (quote), 184, 195, 314
Placebo, 318-337
Placedo, 4, 12, 13, 125, 274
Person Centered Medicine, 83, 86
Politicians , 6, 7, 15, 18, 25, 121, 211, 226, 294, 296, 304, 345, 351, 358, 360, 369
Prince of Wales, HRH The, 8, 9, 11, 29, 149, 264
Quackometer, 36,177, 248, 336, 351
Quacks, 16, 30, 34, 40, 81, 86, 133, 137, 140, 181, 212, 224, 231, 242, 269, 272, 275, 297, 309, 311, 323, 338-370, 371
Quackery, 14, 24, 42, 117, 124, 190, 210, 217, 227, 228, 237, 259, 285, 315, 325, 333, 338-354, 358
Quantum, 17, 25, 39, 40, 42, 90, 114, 158, 170, 177, 281, 348, 357
Randi, James, 16, 111, 158, 227, 306
Reiki, 11, 22, 209-213, 260, 349,
Royal London Hospital/RLH/RLHIM, 22, 23
Royal Colleges – see College of Physicians/Surgeons
Science-based medicine, 56, 261, 287, 352
Scientology, 246, 243, 254,
Sex, 42, 278, 279, 323,
Singh, Simon, 30, 31, 36, 190, 191
Steiner, Rudolph, 229-232, 240, 271
Still, Andrew Taylor, 65, 179 (quote), 181-183, 189, 194, 280, 314, 369,
Thaumaturgic medicine, 198, 315, 329, 360, 371
Thomsonism, 215
Traditional Chinese Medicine/TCM, 54-57, 67, 69, 281, 258
Traditional Indian Medicine/TIM, 49
Traditional Magnetic Medicine/TMM, 59
Traditional Shamanic Medicine, 46, 48, 51, 54,
Traditional Western Medicine/TWM, 47, 55, 56, 68, 72, 83,168,
Wellness/wellbeing, 23-25
Wu, 9, 10, 109, 139, 370, 273, 282, 349-352, 364-373
Wudo, 24, 139, 148, 289, 351, 362, 364-374