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Edzard Ernst: Alternative medicine remains an ethics-free zone
Homeopathy is nonreturnable From today’s Guardian: Therapeutic decisions of any kind should normally be taken after a healthcare professional has provided evidence-based advice to a patient. In...
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Homeopathy: To sell or not to sell? Pharmacists weigh in
Homeopathy is nonreturnable Homeopathy is a popular topic here at Science-Based Pharmacy. I’ve blogged before on the ethics of the provision of these products, and argued pharmacists have an ethical...
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Homeopathy: Not good, not medicine
Caution: Straw Man Arguments Ahead Every time I think I can take a break from homeopathy, something pulls me back to the topic. Today it’s an unbelievably poorly reasoned defense of homeopathy, in, of...
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How to boost homeopathy sales? Don’t tell the customer it’s homeopathy
The other day a parent asked me if she could give her 2-year-old Tylenol liquid along with some cough syrup she had purchased at the pharmacy. I was a bit surprised, as cough and cold products for...
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The Ethical Implications of Rexall’s Dubious Homeopathic Offerings
From ethicist Dr. Chris MacDonald, a column on Rexall’s recent advertisements promoting homeopathy: The problem, of course, is there’s no reliable evidence that homeopathy works, nor any plausible...
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Concerning Signals in Pharmacy Students’ Attitudes About Complementary and...
While I’m now two full decades out of pharmacy school, I am occasionally invited to return to give a lecture or facilitate a workshop. Pharmacy education has changed a lot since the 1990′s. For me,...
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Upcoming talk: Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Business Ethics...
I’ll be joining Professor Chris MacDonald on January 28 for a discussion about the ethics of selling complementary and alternative medicine: Is it ethical to market complementary and alternative...
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Is it ethical to sell complementary and alternative medicine?
I joined Professor Chris MacDonald at Ryerson University earlier this week to participate in Ryerson’s business ethics speaker series. The topic was CAM: Is it ethical to market complementary and...
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Is it ethical to market complementary and alternative medicines?
Very excited to announce that a paper I collaborated on with Dr. Chris MacDonald has now been published in the peer-reviewed journal Bioethics, as part of a series on complementary and alternative...
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The questionable ethics of selling complementary and alternative medicine
Legal to sell, yes. But ethical to sell? Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is no longer fringe, and anything but the mom-and-pop image that manufacturers carefully craft. CAM is big...
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