I like the approach taken by Ralph Moss (PhD), where he categorises the broad spectrum of CAM cancer therapies into these categories:
- Green Light Treatments: Well Researched Approaches
- Amber Light Treatments for Cancer: Efficacy and Safety Still Unclear
- Red Light Treatments: Poorly Researched (or Downright Dangerous)
The authors of this study state:
"the absence of information regarding the type and total number of CM modalities used is a limitation".
Attempting to draw conclusions about CAM therapies without attempting any differentiation between the 'amber light' and 'red light' treatments from the 'green' limits the usefulness of this study. Therefore in the case of 'green light' treatments, I do not believe the authors' conclusions are completely justified.
Perhaps your footnote is pertinent here: “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge"
