Healthcare and Biomedical Technology in the 21st Century

Abstract

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Determination of In vitro antimicrobial activity of homeopathy medicines

“…Though lacking much scientific evidence, it is considered as alternative medicine due to its low cost, fewer side effects and occasional failure of other treatment methodology (4). Shortage of new antibiotics and development of drug resistant organism is a matter of concern for public health worldwide and often lead to the quest of alternative medicine to microbial diseases.…”

“…Severe pains in rectum after the discharge. Almost constant cutting pain in the abdomen 4. Mercury solution.…”

Perceptions of Eighth Graders Concerning the Aim, Effectiveness, and Scientific Basis of Pseudoscience: the Case of Crystal Healing

“…Popper (1963) proposed the falsification criterion and stated that the criterion of the scientific status of a theory depends on its falsifiability, refutability, and testability. Many philosophers and researchers pursued Popper's criterion of falsification (Baran et al 2014;Beyerstein 1995;Carroll 2014;Hansson 2015) in terms that with a basic definition, a hypothesis is falsifiable Bif it can potentially be ruled out by data to show that hypothesis does not explain the observations^ (Baran et al 2014, p. 24). Beyerstein (1995) defended falsificationism by stating that Ba growing accumulation of instances supporting a theoretical explanation can only strengthen our subjective probability that the theory is correct, but a single disconfirming instance is sufficient to topple the entire enterprise^(p. 30).…”

“…The specific pseudoscientific context used in this study was crystal healing (Beyerstein 1995;Smith 2010), which is a type of alternative medicine practice. Researchers also use different terms for this practice such as crystal power (Moore 1992), crystal therapy (Baran et al 2014), and crystal energy (Smith 2010). According to Lindeman (1998), we have a tendency to adopt alternative health care practices since they appeal to our experiential thinking with their characteristics of being emotionally laden, outcomeoriented, experience-directed, and self-evidently valid.…”

Qualifications for a Successful Translator of Traditional Chinese Medicine

“…In some cases, it has even been regarded as a pseudoscience or fake medicine. [4] Such misled understanding can be traced to insufficient promotion of TCM to the world, including a lack of translation of TCM literature and clinic evidences.…”