Question:
I'm suggesting to you that you spend $12 at the American MedicalAssociation (AMA) website to read, and download, an OFFICIAL AMACOMMENTARY, and an absolutely SHOCKING article BASHING thequackbusters. In fact, the word "bashing" is an UNDERSTATEMENT. TheAMA couldn't have made it's OFFICIAL position on the quackbuster'sattack on AltMed any clearer.

The Quackbusters would like to give us the impression that theyrepresent American mainstream medical thinking, when in fact they donot...

If anyone, in their publications, and commentaries, could claim torepresent that mainstream medical viewpoint in the United States, itwould certainly have to be the American Medical Association (AMA).

It looks to me that the AMA doesn't like the "quackbuster's" tacticsone bit, and has clearly said so in published commentary. You can goread their five page article (if you pay the $12) titled "BattlingQuackery - Attitudes About Micronutrient Supplementation in AmericanAcademic Medicine," printed in the Archives of Internal Medicine,yourself, first, but here is the conclusion of their commentary. Words you'll never read on quackwatch.com...

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