and has saved millions of lives. In Australia, Chinese medicine practitioners are registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, and Bensoussan is on the Natural Therapies Review Team at the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia's peak funding body for medical research. In May this year, the World Health Organisation agreed to include traditional remedies in its foundational document - a strong endorsement.
Western Sydney University Vice-Chancellor Barney Glover and Xu Anlong, president of the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, sign the memorandum of understanding witnessed by Xi Jinping and Tony Abbott in Canberra in 2014.
The University has denied that NICM had funding issues in 2015, and Bensoussan also denied that NICM’s embrace of Chinese medicine had anything to do with money: “That is completely wrong. It is really hard to get money out of China. China has very strict rules around these sorts of things.
liammannix I worry about the broader issue of scientific credibility for sale. Pharmaceutical/implant/supplement companies, private health insurers, chiropractic posture devices etc. etc. A dangerous balancing act that's becoming more common with falling public funding.
liammannix Selling out your scientific credibility for $$. Encouraging nonsense cures and the exploitation of endangered flora and fauna around the world. A great story liammannix.