New post up over at Talk Health

I posted a slightly more controversial healthcare discussion piece over at Talk Health yesterday evening.

You can visit my posts at Talk Health by following the link :

www.talkhealthpartnership.com/blog/author/phil-knight/

The new article is a discussion of skepticism in healthcare and in particular adopting this approach to treatment modalities that have no scientific or evidential basis for their action (primarily a discussion of why with the exception of the placebo effect, alternative therapies do not work). It's the first part of a two part article and in the second half I will discuss some of the ways in which we can educate ourselves so as not to be fooled by non-scientific hype.