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According to their website , the commission derives its purpose from the statement that "Aberrant remedies are often offered uncritically as alternative or complementary to mainstream medicine. They include everything from untested Herbal Medicine s, Homeopathy , and Aromatherapy to the use of Acupuncture , Therapeutic Touch , prayer at a distance, Faith Healing , Chelation Therapy , and purportedly miraculous Cancer cures. Similarly, a wide variety of untested practices have flourished in popularity in the field of Mental Health . Still other techniques are widely used even though they are questionable on scientific grounds. Although some of these techniques may ultimately prove to be effective, it is disturbing that their use greatly outstrips the Scientific evidence." In an effort to increase the amount of empirical data available concerning these untested remedies, the commission sponsors two publications: The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice (SRAM). In addition, it sponsors conferences and seminars in scientific medicine and mental health for healthcare providers and for the public. CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCHOLARSHIP In 2001, University of California at Irvine Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Bruce Flamm, M.D. and other researchers for CSMMH and its journal SRAM were instrumental in exposing the scandal involving the publication of a Columbia University study in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine (Cha, KY et.al. 2001). In 2004, CSMMH joined its sister organization, the Committee For The Scientific Investigation Of Claims Of The Paranormal (CSICOP), in designing and conducting a preliminary examination of the claims of Natasha Demkina , a 17-year-old, alleged medical Psychic in Saransk , Russia. Demkina provides diagnostic readings to people based on her claimed ability to see everything inside of a person's body down to the cellular level. The producer-director of the Discovery Channel program, The Girl with X-ray Eyes, invited CSMMH and CSICOP to test the psychic's claims and brought the young woman to New York City to film the test on May 1, 2004. NOTABLE MEMBERS
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