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A desire to be different

Jim Vause

Thursday 28 October 2021, 03:57 PM

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Integrative medicine “combines the best of conventional western medicine with evidence-based complementary medicine and therapies”

In his search to understand doctors who oppose the COVID-19 vaccination, GP at large Jim Vause discovers the world of integrative medicine

Working through the NZDSOS anti-vax doctor list, trying to ascertain who were actually practising GPs, I was struck by two associations. The first was

Vaccination

References

[1] Best Practice for Integrative Medicine in Australian Medical Practice, January 2014

https://www.aima.net.au/best-practice-in-integrative-medicine/

[2] “I Know Things They Don’t Know!” The Role of Need for Uniqueness in Belief in Conspiracy Theories

Anthony Lantian, Dominique Muller, Cécile Nurra, and Karen M. Douglas, 10 July, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000306

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