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The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks

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Behind the dubious medical claims of Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deepak Chopra is a decades-long strategy to promote alternative medicine to the American public. Twenty-three years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to investigate a wide variety of unconventional medical practices from around the world. Five-and-a-half billion dollars later, the NIH's funding of complementary and integrative care has found no cures for disease. But it has succeeded in bringing every kind of quackery — from faith healing to homeopathy — out of the shadows and into the heart of the American medical establishment.

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deepak chopra (organization leader)
,
mehmet öz (organization leader)
,
national institutes of health (government agency)
,
quackery
,
oprah winfrey (celebrity)
,
reiki
,
pseudoscience (literature subject)
,
acupuncture (profession)
,
chiropractic (literature subject)
,
ayurveda (religious practice)
,
wellness (industry)
,
steve jobs (organization leader)
,
homeopathy (literature subject)
,
cancer
,
complementary medicine
,
integrative medicine
,
wellness
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