My daughter is working towards a Ph.D. in computational linguistics (I think…when she talks about her research I only understand every third word) at the University of Colorado Boulder. I’m just hanging out with my granddaughter this week, and I cringed at the chewing out Orac delivers to the institution — there is a unit of UC called UC Health that is publishing the most outrageous quackery, most recently an article touting the benefits of acupuncture in winter, written by a quack with a Masters degree in Oriental Medicine from the Southwest Acupuncture College. That’s gotta be a joke degree, right? If someone applied to my department with that on their CV, we’d have a good laugh and round-file it on the spot.
Anyway, now I feel like marching down to the university administration and giving them a good talking-to. How dare they dilute and devalue my daughter’s hard work with this nonsense?
Don’t think the the UC health system has anything to do with the university at Boulder. It’s a fully fledged money grabbing health care system that builds lots of expensive new hospitals and other facilities all over the state.
https://www.uchealth.org/today/new-uchealth-steadman-hawkins-orthopedic-and-sports-performance-center-open-now/
Perhaps there are ways to get responsible persons to read ORAC.
jack16
Hey! Thirty-odd years ago, my daughter taught Computational Linguistics at CU Boulder!
Does this mean I have to start collecting spiders?
Quackwatch.org is a good site.