Leading scientists have written to every university vice chancellor in the country asking them to stop teaching "unscientific" complementary or alternative medicine courses.
Emeritus Professor John Dwyer from the University of NSW, co-founder of the Friends of Science in Medicine group, said he wanted “vice-chancellors to ask their deans of science what the heck’s going on … It’s just extraordinary that such undisciplined nonsense is being taught in universities around Australia.”
Speaking on ABC Radio National’s PM program, Professor Dwyer said more than 400 leading scientists and clinical academics had endorsed the letter.
“These are the most senior scientists [in the country] and we include in that now 50 international scientists who are struggling with the same problem in their own countries -...
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