Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Here's one of many examples. The authors arrogantly criticize the Mayo clinic for promoting bogus "alternative therapies" such as acupuncture stating that they have no evidence at all of efficacy and its all pseudoscience. Only problem is if you go to the US National Library of Medicine's website (pubmed) and type in the word "acupuncture", you will get (as of today) 29,195 peer reviewed journal articles. You read that correctly: twenty-nine thousand articles, many of them being original research with findings that acupuncture is safe and effective as you can see for yourself if you start reading through them. Now let's compare that to the author's own medical specialty. According to Wikipedia, he is a subspecialist in botulinum therapy. If you search for "botulinum" on pubmed you get 21,335 articles. Now that's using the most generous search term I could use as not all articles on botulinum will be on botulinum therapy. In other words, the author dismisses acupuncture (and all other "alternative therapies") as not being evidence based, even though there is more research on acupuncture than there is on the botulinum therapy that he specializes in. Of course he would argue that just because there is a lot of research doesn't mean it's good quality or one better than the other ... introducing more of his own biases because he certainly did not even read 1% of the acupuncture studies that are available yet is happy to make definitive (and incorrect) conclusions that it is not evidence based. This is representative of the book as a whole. Subjects the authors don't understand but don't like (personal biases) are dismissed through a variety of manipulation techniques that are in stark contrast to how they state a skeptic should be. They are both arrogant and misinformed. They sound really informed until you look into their claims further. I am left skeptical that much of the information presented was properly researched ... then again maybe that was the point of the book.