Randomized Controlled Trials as Evidence in Legal Disputes About the Benefits of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Ian D. Coulter, John Walsh

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2008Published In: Alternative therapies In Health and Medicine, v. 14, no. 2, Mar./Apr. 2008, p. 60-64

In this article the authors examine an exemplar (dietary supplements) of the clash between science and law and the dangers inherent in judges wandering in the murky field of scientific controversy and using it as the basis of a judgment.

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  • Copyright: InnoVision Communications, LLC
  • Publisher: InnoVision Communications, LLC
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2008
  • Pages: 5
  • Document Number: EP-200803-18

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