Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists » Alternative Medicine http://bruinskeptics.org Reason at UCLA Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:41:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Alternative Medicine in the Daily Bruin http://bruinskeptics.org/2009/11/02/alternative-medicine-in-the-daily-bruin/ http://bruinskeptics.org/2009/11/02/alternative-medicine-in-the-daily-bruin/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:30:34 +0000 Tristan Miller http://bruinskeptics.org/?p=651 On October 21st, the Daily Bruin featured two articles in its Science and Health section which were sympathetic to Integrative Medicine.  “Integrative,” if you weren’t aware, is one of those buzzwords of alternative medicine.

Wellness remedies can work best in tandem
UCLA Center for East-West Medicine fuses integrates alternative, conventional medicine for better treatment

Fellow BASS member Daniel sent a letter to the Daily Bruin in reply, and it appeared today.

Alternative medicine requires scrutiny (scroll down to second letter)

Congratulations to Daniel for getting it published!  Writing letters like these is one of the easiest ways to be an effective activist.  Let’s do it more often!

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