'Friends of Science1 not evidence-based

摘要

An editorial appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia on 5 March 2012 entitled 'Tertiary education institutions should not offer pseudoscientific medical courses'.1 The editorial is authored by two founding members of the Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM) which is 'dedicated to countering the growth of pseudoscience in medicine'; however nowhere in this editorial is any definition of 'pseudoscience' offered. Indeed the editorial is peppered with emotive rather than scientific language — 'subterfuge', 'alarmingly, 'sully.