By the time this January ‘07 issue of Positive Health is published a few days prior to Christmas, we will all, hopefully, be having at least a bit of a rest over the holiday season. Or, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to be healthy rather than ill, and don’t have to work over the entire period.

There are a number of tangible threats which put at risk many vital products and practices of Complementary Medicine. These include:

1.    Attempts by the evidence-based medicine brigades to dispute, denigrate and ignore  research which does not satisfy their very narrow randomized double-blind criteria (see Evidence-Based Medicine: The Over-Reliance Upon Science, page 23);