"@NIH needs to raise the bar for funding alternative medicine research" Yep. A better move: simply kill the @NIH_NCCIH! Legitimizes bunk. https://www.statnews.com/2018/02/26/alternative-medicine-nih-funding/ … via @statnews "Many [most] of the interventions have proven to be worthless." @McGillOSS @gorskon @ScienceBasedMed
Exactly. I forget the exact number, but the federal government's spent between $1-2 billion over the last 25 years studying this stuff. The results have been very underwhelming.