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Commentary
Nature 446, 373-374 (22 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446373a; Published online 21 March 2007
Science degrees without the science
David Colquhoun1
- David Colquhoun is in the Department of Pharmacology at University College London, UK.
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Abstract
Some UK universities offer science degrees in complementary medicine. David Colquhoun argues that these are not science but anti-science, and asks who is to blame.
Both of the exam questions shown in the box below sound pretty archaic. The first was set by Sydney Ringer in the materia medica and therapeutics exam at University College London in 1863.
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