It's bad enough that AZ has Sedona, but I wouldn't have never guessed that the U of A would let me down!

So, as many of you know (I'm guessing all of you) I'm a U of A student. I love my school and I thought that it was a well rounded school (and still do) that had standards. Well I wouldn't throw that out completely but I read an article recently on a blog I like a lot called Science-Based Medicine. In the article, "Resistance is futile", I just skimmed to see if I wanted to indulge it later when I had more time when I noticed that my very school was the focus of discussion. As my title suggests Arizona, mostly because of Sedona but not entirely, is a center of "WOO". Woo, as I refer to it, is basically new-agey bullshit like alternative medicine and spiritual supernatural hippy crap. Not that Tucson, where I live, is immune to this BS but I thought that my institution of learning had higher standards than teaching so called "integrative medicine" which is obviously another name for alternative medicine. Honestly I was shocked! If you don't believe me click on the link!

Here is an example of this total crap!

Now to the unskeptical eye this sounds good and is a resonable claim but is really sad when you pick it apart. I can imagin a world where "medicine was oriented twards healing rather than disease" and it's reffered to as the Dark Ages! Yeah while we're at it why don't we just bring back that ancient secret of blood letting. This is the problem with this kind of thing, it sounds like common sense but it's really just bad for medicine because it brings credibility to this kind of deplorable unscientific mode of "medicine". I'm for the first time ashamed of my university, the University of Arizona. I will end with a ponient quote from the aritcle:

...Physicians like Dr. Weil are more dangerous than quacks like Hulda Clark, because he mixes his brand of unscientific medicine with enough scientific medicine to make it sound plausible and to blur the line between the two to the point that it is not always apparent even to skeptics where science ends and woo begins.