Healthy skepticism is one thing.
Those who were fair and open-minded were largely relegated to an occasional letter to the editor of the Times. OAM announced to the world that the examination of such methods in a fair and dispassionate way was high on the agenda of one of the U.S.'s premiere health research organization. While OAM has been slow to fulfill that early promise, there is no denying that it changed the terrain of the debate forever. Not surprisingly, the public and then the media enthusiastically embraced that vision. Yet here, too, we should not imagine a monolith, much less a conspiracy.