Buttock-cupping: A New Form Of Alternative Medicine?

Saturday, December 11, 2010 - 10:40 in Psychology & Sociology

No, it's not my idea -- it's actually courtesy of this hilarious paper in the British Medical Journal by John McLachlan of Durham University. Mr. McLachlan received a mass email invitation to submit papers for "The Jerusalem Conference on Integrative Medicine" and decided to take advantage of the opportunity to have a little fun. He sent a reply to the conference organizers offering to present his work on "integrative medicine". They asked him for an abstract, so he sent them the following: read more

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