Medical research for holistic modalities

My friend Daryl The Holistic Health Phreak is blogging about the difficulties in "testing" holistic medicine. It's often times difficult to arrange for double-blind trials, for some very practical reasons:

In the holistic health world, it is sometimes not even possible to do a scientific study to judge a certain technique. How can you have a "placebo massage?" How can you have a pretend aroma in aromatherapy? You could create a fake rose smell, but then that smell might cause a whole chain reaction that you weren't anticipating.

You see how this could be a problem?

Posted by Evo Terra at December 05, 2003 11:42 PM | TrackBack (0)