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 Mooney's expose of the "alternative medicine" story, a set of events unprecedented in medicine, and the greatest challenge to science since 1910. For the first time in a century, political pressures and mystical mys·ti·cal  
adj.
1. Of or having a spiritual reality or import not apparent to the intelligence or senses.

2. Of, relating to, or stemming from direct communion with ultimate reality or God:
 beliefs reached a critical mass, driving unnecessary research and promoting ideologically-based medicine. We have more negative studies disproving the most popular alternative methods than for any standard method proven ineffective. The reason the movement persists, as Mr. Mooney Mooney is family name, which is probably predominantly derived from the Irish Ó Maonaigh. It can also be spelled Moony, Meaney, Mauney, Moon, Money. The word can refer to: Companies
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People
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 and Dr. Novella novella: see novel.
novella

Story with a compact and pointed plot, often realistic and satiric in tone. Originating in Italy during the Middle Ages, it was often based on local events; individual tales often were gathered into collections.
 point out, is that advocates will not relieve themselves of their beliefs, no matter how much negative research surrounds them. And the public gets deluded into following them.

Add to that the abuse of congressional power by senators and congressmen who also believe and are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on ill-conceived medical perpetual-motion machines perpetual-motion machine, device that would be able to operate continuously and supply useful work, in violation of the laws of thermodynamics. A machine that would produce more energy in the form of work than is supplied to it in the form of heat would violate the .

The press, initially lulled into thinking collectively that some hidden cache of wonder lay beneath the claims, has finally recognized it has been conned. Finally, the courage to tell it like it really is has materialized.
WALLACE SAMPSON, M.D.
Editor, The Scientific Review of
Alternative Medicine
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Author:Sampson, Wallace
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Letter to the Editor
Date:Jun 1, 2002
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