Recently, the leak of a confidential report from the University of Toronto has shined a light on an alternative medicine class taught to the school's health studies majors. The class—which has a syllabus that is full of odd, fringe ideas—is taught by a homeopath who's the wife of the campus' dean. It drew fire from other faculty for its anti-vaccination stance, but the leaked report says it's fine—students get reliable information about vaccination elsewhere.
The syllabus for the course has been posted online, and it reads a bit like a bad blog post. "Quantum physics is a branch of physics that understands the interrelationship between matter and energy," It states. "This science offers clear explanations as to why homeopathic remedies with seemingly no chemical trace of the original substance are able to resolve chronic diseases, why acupuncture can offer patients enough pain relief to undergo surgery without anesthesia, why meditation alone can, in some instances, reduce the size of cancerous tumors."
But the part that caused the complaints is the section on vaccines, which includes assigned viewings of videos from Andrew Wakefield, who first launched the MMR vaccine scare, and another entitled, "Vaccine's Safety A Crime Against Humanity." According to The Toronto Star, "some of [University of Toronto's] professors and a number of external experts complained about it," prompting the review of the course.
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