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Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets: Hoax or an effective tool for weight loss?
The Atkins diet books have sold more than 45 million copies over 40 years, and in the obesity epidemic this diet and accompanying Atkins food products are popular. The diet claims to be effective at producing weight loss despite ad libitum consumption of fatty meat, butter, and other high-fat dairy products, restricting only the intake of carbohydrates to under 30 g a day. Low-carbohydrate diets have been regarded as fad diets, but recent research questions this view.

A Close Look At Homeopathy
Around 1800, the German medical doctor Samuel Hahnemann, obviously appalled with the still mostly medieval medical practices of his contemporaries, set out to revolutionize medical science. Today's followers of this quackery are remarkably successful in convincing people that the laws of the Universe don't apply to their water drops and sugar pills.

A Consumer Advocate's Dilemma: Should CAM be Researched?
Examining the reasons why and if Complementary and Alternative Medicine deserves to be considered candidates for serious research.

Diagnosing and Treating Acute Mechanical Back Pain
Although many chiropractors will examine and provide passive therapy, including spinal manipulation, to their patients; the evidence supporting that traditional approach is lacking in the literature.

Dilution or Delusion?
Homeopathy is a controversial concept of medicine with a large following, widespread popularity, even public and legislative support - and a theoretical foundation which is logically inconsistent and self-contradictory to an extent that borders on (or transgresses) the absurd.

Fighting the Medi-scams
Peter Bowditch tells the story of Australian quackery. It's not pretty, mate.

Freedom of Informed Choice
For freedom of choice to mean anything, there must exist the possibility of making a choice between alternatives. This implies variety and abundance. How does "alternative medicine" measure up to that?

Is Complementary & Alternative Medicine a UFO?
The Relation of Complementary & Alternative Medicine to Evidence Based Medicine

The Nature of Anecdotes
What is an anecdote? Why do we pay special attention to some experiences and tell about them? Are they true or false? Can they be trusted? Why do we selectively ignore other experiences? These are questions of vital importance for people who consider it important to really learn what is fact and truth.

A Skeptic Looks at Christian Science
The health claims of Christian Science are not all they are cracked up to be. Unsurprisingly.

Stroke and Spinal Manipulation
A recent artide in The Annals of Internal Medicine reviewed 39 studies showing that spinal manipulation, the most commonly practiced chiropractic procedure, was no more effective than cheaper alternatives, such as exercise.