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Title: A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine: A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-Healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments by Kurt Butler, Stephen Barrett ISBN: 0-87975-733-7 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.44 (9 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent guide
Comment: Don't eat fat, do eat fat, everything can be treated by acupuncture (thought the Chinese were never able to overcome serious disease with it and today are using western medicine) or everything can be treated with herbs, diagnosing everything by looking at the iris of your eye is "treating the whole person" - it doesn't take a genius to see that there is something seriously wrong with "alternative medicine." This book cuts through the miasma of hucksterism and gives very useful information on what it's all about. The "true believers" won't like it, of course, but that's understandable.

Rating: 1
Summary: Unconventional Bad, Conventional Good
Comment: Once again, someone is pointing the finger at alternative and natural medicine as ineffective at its best or fraudulent and "quackery" at its worst. I am interested in alternative medicine and wanted to know why certain alternative treatments are looked down upon by the medical community. This book is simply a finger-pointer with no content.

The authors often cite that the only people claiming that certain treatments or products work are those who stand to make money through distributing those same treatments or products. However, no one ever seems to point out that the medical and pharmaceutical industries stand to LOSE a lot of money if these alternative treatments and medicines are acknowledged to be valid forms of treatment.

Books like this only validate the idea that the medical community can't come up with solid evidence that these alternative medicines DON'T work. But the pharmaceutical companies can't patent natural products, so you do the math. I'll stick with my alternative treatments. At least you don't have to worry about them killing you if you misread the usage information on the label.

Rating: 1
Summary: Not worth reading
Comment: The author of this book clearly doesn't give a lick about the people he is "protecting". This book is the ramblings and reasearch of a man who is on a quest to find as many things wrong with this particular subject as he can find. His only goal is to paint the gloomiest possible picture, a very simplistic form of writing. Anybody can do this on any subject by being selective. One of the most unworthwhile books I have ever had the misfortune of buying (used thank goodness).

If you like diatribes, this book is for you and you will be suitably amused. Otherwise save your money and just use good common sense.