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Assaulting alternative medicine: worthwhile or witch hunt?

BMJ 2012; 344 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e1075 (Published 15 February 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:e1075

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Re: Assaulting alternative medicine: worthwhile or witch hunt?

I presume that Viera Scheibner is the person who makes money by selling books that preach the evils of vaccination. It might have been helpful if we'd been told.

If it was left to people like Viera Scheibner, we'd still live in a world where smallpox and polio were rampant.

I rest my case.

Competing interests: No competing interests

27 February 2012
David Colquhoun
Professor
UCL
Gower Street, WC1E 6BT