1. The National Institutes of Health is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services. Stephen Barrett is the vice president of the National Council Against Health Fraud and a scientific adviser to the American Council on Science and Health. Based on their respective credentials, whose argument on the benefits of acupuncture do you find more convincing? Why?
2. Homeopathic medicine is based on the theory that diseases can be cured if patients are given minute doses of natural substances that in larger quantities would produce symptoms of the disease being treated. Rudolph Ballentine and David W. Ramey disagree about homeopathy’s effectiveness. After reading their viewpoints, do you think that homeopathy is beneficial or harmful? Why?
3. One of the major arguments against alternative medicine is that such treatments have not been adequately tested for their efficacy and safety. However, proponents of alternative treatments argue that...