When?
Wednesday, May 20 at 7:30PM
Where?
Who?
Prof Edzard Ernst
What's the talk about?
Edzard Ernst's team of 10-15 researchers have tried for the last 15 years to critically evaluate “alternative medicine”. Much of the resulting evidence has now been summarised in the book ‘Trick or Treatment’ by Simon Singh and myself. As it turns out, alternative medicine is more “trick” than “treatment”. In my talk, I will report about some of the often amazing milestones on my long journey toward the truth.
Professor Edzard Ernst is the first Chair in Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter. He is founder/Editor-in-Chief of two medical journals (FACT (‘Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies’) and ‘Perfusion’). His work has been awarded with 13 scientific prizes/awards and two Visiting Professorships. He served on the ‘Medicines Commission’ of the British ‘Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency’ (1994 – 2005) and on the ‘Scientific Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products’ of the ‘Irish Medicines Board’.
Edzard has published over 1000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature, has written 39 books (translated into 5 languages), dozens of chapters and has given about five hundred invited international lectures.