Brief Fallacies About Money

Thirteen follies and fallacies about alternative medicine.

T use of alternative medicine (AM)—treatments such as herbs or massage therapy—has long been a part of healthcare in many regions of the world “to complement mainstream medicine by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy or by diversifying the conceptual frameworks of medicine” [1]. What AM cannot do is replace conventional treatment, particularly when it com...

And more about money.

this is totally unacceptable. The third is to get the law changed —and to stay the hand of the Postal Service until this can be done. We believe that the third alternative is the only one acceptable —on both moral and practical grounds —to the scientific community and to the publishers of scientific information. Such an action requires the mobilization of this community in terms of lobbying, le...

It's not about the money.

It's all about the money.

Moneygrams: Recalled Childhood Memories about Money and Adult Money Pathology

In this study, 512 adults completed two questionnaires. One questionnaire was devised specifically for this study concerning childhood memories of parental money beliefs and behaviors, which were passed to children (i.e., moneygrams). The second questionnaire established a measure of " money pathology " (Forman, 1987). The moneygram questionnaire was based on clinical cases and idiographic stud...