{"id":7911,"date":"2011-12-22T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2011-12-22T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:09:16","slug":"has-the-journal-nature-sullied-its-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=7911","title":{"rendered":"Has the Journal Nature Sullied its Brand?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prestigious journal Nature has published a special supplement<\/a> on traditional Asian medicine (free access). Financial sponsorship for it came from the Kitasato University Oriental Medicine Research Center and the Saishunkan Pharmaceutical Co, which is described<\/a> as<\/p>\n

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https://dentalprovidence.com/about/ That’s one big red flag. Of course, Nature duly acknowledges the sponsorship, and appearances notwithstanding, gives<\/a> this reassurance:<\/p>\n

\u00a0As always,\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0takes full responsibility for all editorial content.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/cavity-on-wisdom-tooth/ Nature also explains<\/a>\u00a0how it to came to treat traditional Asian medicine as science-worthy:<\/p>\n

https://www.secpeinvestments.com/rentals/ When the topic of traditional Asian medicine was first mooted, we were sceptical. To a magazine based in Europe and steeped in the history of science, there is much about traditional Asian medical practice that seems mystical and pseudoscientific. Other than well known success stories “\u201d artemisinin for malaria, and arsenic trioxide for leukaemia “\u201d there seemed to be a lack of scientifically proven remedies.<\/p>\n

https://worklivelaos.com/icbc4/ Yet a bit of probing revealed what a complex story this is. Not only are big efforts underway to modernize traditional medicine in China and Japan, but Western medicine is adopting some aspects of the Eastern point of view too. In particular, modern medical practitioners are coming around to the idea that certain illnesses cannot be reduced to one isolatable, treatable cause. Rather, a fall from good health often involves many small, subtle effects that create a system-wide imbalance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Orac, unsurprisingly, is aghast, and says<\/a> the special issue is “chock full” of “atrocities against skepticism and science.” \u00a0I’m still making my way through the articles, so I’m going to reserve judgement, for now. Orac, though, has done his own deep dive and concludes that,<\/p>\n

Hydrocodone Purchase Online to their eternal shame, by publishing this issue, the editors of\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0have become willing shills for the TCM [Traditional Chinese Medicine] industry.\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0has sold out, and its editors and publisher should be called out for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Order Hydrocodone Online It’ll be interesting to see how other scientists (and science journalists) react.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http://masterfacilitator.com/compactcoaching/ The prestigious journal Nature has published a special supplement on traditional Asian medicine (free access). Financial sponsorship for it came from the Kitasato University Oriental Medicine Research Center and the Saishunkan Pharmaceutical Co, which is described as a herbal medicine manufacturer which aims to help people make the most of their natural powers of healing… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3027],"tags":[1581,1585,1710],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traditional-chinese-medicine","tag-science","tag-science-journalism","tag-traditional-chinese-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}