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The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks (2015)
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The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks (2015)

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Behind the dubious medical claims of Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deepak Chopra is a decades-long strategy to promote alternative medicine to the American public. Twenty-three years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to investigate a ...See moreBehind the dubious medical claims of Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deepak Chopra is a decades-long strategy to promote alternative medicine to the American public. Twenty-three years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to investigate a wide variety of unconventional medical practices from around the world. Five-and-a-half billion dollars later, the NIH has found no cures for disease. But it has succeeded in bringing every kind of quackery-from faith healing to homeopathy-out of the shadows and into the heart of the American medical establishment. See less

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Steven Salzberg Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University See fewer	The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks (2015)
Joseph Jacobs Director of the N.I.H. Office of Alternative Medicine Director of the N.I.H. Office of Alternative Medicine See fewer	The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks (2015)
Tom Harkin United States Senator (archive footage) United States Senator (archive footage) See fewer	Dave (1993)
Bill Moyers Journalist (archive footage) Journalist (archive footage) See fewer	Bill Moyers' Journal (1972)
Josephine Briggs Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health See fewer	The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks (2015)