Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, 25 Victoria Park Road, Exeter EX2 4NT, UK.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2010 Dec;7(4):425-6. doi: 10.1093/ecam/nen089. Epub 2009 Feb 6.
Experts and lay people alike can sometimes find it difficult to demarcate the absurd. Here I propose a set of criteria that may be helpful in achieving this in the realm of healthcare: falsifiability, plausibility and some hallmarks of pseudoscience. Applying this method is unlikely to be fool-proof but it might be a valuable aid in discriminating credible from incredible health claims.
无论是专家还是非专业人士,有时都很难划定荒谬的界限。在这里,我提出了一套在医疗保健领域可能有助于实现这一目标的标准:可证伪性、合理性和伪科学的一些特征。应用这种方法不太可能万无一失,但它可能是区分可信和不可信健康声明的一个有价值的辅助手段。