Lamm, Ehud (2016) Exposing Medical Pseudo-Science May Be Unethical. [Preprint]
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Abstract
An argument is presented according to which exposing pseudo-scientific medical claims may be ethically wrong. It is then suggested that this argument gives an interesting explanation why the successful outing of pseudo-science may lead to an increase in medical pseudo-science overall.
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| Keywords: | pseudoscience, demarcation, placebo effect, alternative medicine, evidence based medicine | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Ehud Lamm | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2016 18:57 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 May 2016 18:57 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12112 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience |
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| Date: | April 2016 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12112 |
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