Trick or Treatment

Trick or Treatment—The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (Electronic book text)

Edzard Ernst Simon Singh

Trick or Treatment

Trick or Treatment

The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine

Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst, MD

W. W. NORTON & COMPANY

New York London

Copyright © 2008 by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst

First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, under the title Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial

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Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data

Singh, Simon.

Trick or treatment: the undeniable facts about alternative medicine/

Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst. – 1st American ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 978‑0‑393‑06986‑0

1. Alternative medicine. I. Ernst, E. (Edzard) II. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Complementary Therapies. 2. Evidence‑Based Medicine.

3. Placebo Effect. WB 890 S617t 2008]

R&33.S568 2008

610–dc22 2008019110

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