from Skeptical Inquirer
Kimball C. Atwood IV, M.D., "The Ongoing Problem with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine"

... The problem with so-called Complementary and Alternative Medicine, in a nutshell, is that it is an assortment of implausible, dishonest, expensive, and sometimes dangerous claims that are exuberantly promoted to a scientifically naive public. The NCCAM, so far, has not been part of the solution ...