Criticism
A number of practitioners and supporters of alternative medicine oppose Barrett and Quackwatch. Donna Ladd, a journalist with The Village Voice, says Barrett relies heavily on negative research to criticize alternative medicine, rejecting most positive case studies as unreliable. She wrote that Barrett insists that most alternative therapies simply should be disregarded without further research. "A lot of things don't need to be tested they simply don't make any sense," he says, pointing to homeopathy, chiropractic, and acupuncture as examples of alternative treatments with no plausible mechanism of action.
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