Editing Quackery (section)

== Criticism of quackery in academia ==
The [[evidence-based medicine]] community has criticized the infiltration of [[alternative medicine]] into mainstream academic medicine, education, and publications, accusing institutions of "diverting research time, money, and other resources from more fruitful lines of investigation in order to pursue a theory that has no basis in biology."<ref name="Gorski2010">{{cite web|last=Gorski|first=David|date=3 August 2010|title=Credulity about acupuncture infiltrates the ''New England Journal of Medicine''{{thinsp}}|website=sciencebasedmedicine.org|publisher=Science-Based Medicine|url=http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6381|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210043145/http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6381|archive-date=10 December 2010|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Novella |first=Steven|author-link=Steven Novella|date=4 August 2010|title=Acupuncture pseudoscience in the ''New England Journal of Medicine''{{thinsp}}|website=sciencebasedmedicine.org|publisher=Science-Based Medicine|url=http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6391|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807053720/http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6391|archive-date=7 August 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

For example, [[David Gorski]] criticized [[Brian M. Berman]], founder of the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, for writing that "There [is] evidence that both real acupuncture and sham acupuncture [are] more effective than no treatment and that acupuncture can be a useful supplement to other forms of conventional therapy for low back pain." He also castigated editors and peer reviewers at the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]'' for allowing it to be published, since it effectively recommended deliberately misleading patients in order to achieve a known [[placebo effect]].<ref name="Gorski2010" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Berman|first1=Brian M.|last2=Langevin|first2=Helene M.|author-link2=Helene Langevin|last3=Witt|first3=Claudia M.|last4=Dubner|first4=Ronald|date=29 July 2010|title=Acupuncture for chronic low back pain|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=363|issue=5|pages=454–461|doi=10.1056/NEJMct0806114|pmid=20818865|s2cid=10129706}} Correction of an author name in {{cite journal|date=26 August 2010|title=Acupuncture for chronic low back pain|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=363|issue=9|page=893|doi=10.1056/NEJMx100048|doi-access=free}}</ref>