Edzard Ernst famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.
-- Edzard Ernst

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We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation.
-- Edzard Ernst

#Pain #Medicine #Deserve Better
The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as ridiculous as it is insulting to everyone in healthcare who does his/her best to meet the needs of their patients. The assumption that unproven or disproven treatments become acceptable simply because they are often administered in a kind and caring fashion is quite simply not true.
-- Edzard Ernst

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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.
I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.
Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

Edzard Ernst famous quotes

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