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The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in USA has an annual budget of 122&nbsp;million dollars, financed by the government, and spent $2.5 billion on studies of CAM therapies.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/06/the_ap_shoots_and_scores_again.php The AP shoots and scores again], scienceblogs.com</ref><ref>[http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/ Research Results NCCAM]</ref> The NCCAM budget has been criticized because despite the duration and intensity of studies, there have been exactly zero effective CAM treatments supported by scientific evidence to date.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/16/AR2009031602139.html Scientists Speak Out Against Federal Funds for Research on Alternative Medicine], David Brown, Washington Post, March 17, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/nccam.html Why the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Should Be Defunded], Wallace I. Sampson M.D., Quackwatch, December 2002</ref> R. Barker Bausell, a research methods expert and author of "Snake Oil Science" states that "it's become politically correct to investigate nonsense."<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31190909/ $2.5 billion spent, no alternative cures found], msnbc.com</ref>

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in USA has an annual budget of 122&nbsp;million dollars, financed by the government, and spent $2.5 billion on studies of CAM therapies.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/06/the_ap_shoots_and_scores_again.php The AP shoots and scores again], scienceblogs.com</ref><ref>[http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/ Research Results NCCAM]</ref> The NCCAM budget has been criticized because despite the duration and intensity of studies, there have been exactly zero effective CAM treatments supported by scientific evidence to date.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/16/AR2009031602139.html Scientists Speak Out Against Federal Funds for Research on Alternative Medicine], David Brown, Washington Post, March 17, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/nccam.html Why the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Should Be Defunded], Wallace I. Sampson M.D., Quackwatch, December 2002</ref> R. Barker Bausell, a research methods expert and author of "Snake Oil Science" states that "it's become politically correct to investigate nonsense."<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31190909/ $2.5 billion spent, no alternative cures found], msnbc.com</ref>

Wallace Sampson, an editor of Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and a Stanford University professor of medicine, comments CAM is the "propagation of the absurd" based on the example that alternative and complementary have been substituted for quackery, dubious, and implausible and concerns that CAM tolerates contradiction without through reason and experiment.

Wallace Sampson, an editor of Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and a Stanford University professor of medicine, comments CAM is the "propagation of the absurd" based on the example that alternative and complementary have been substituted for dubious and implausible quackery.

Currently (2010), the "National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine" (NCCAM) and the "Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine" (OCCAM) spend a combined 240 million U.S. Dollars of taxpayers' money from the NIH (National Institute of Health).<ref>Salzberg S. Save taxpayer $$$: Eliminate alternative medicine research. Forbes.com, 18. Juni 2010 [http://blogs.forbes.com/sciencebiz/2010/06/save-taxpayer-eliminate-alternative-medicine-research/]</ref>

Currently (2010), the "National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine" (NCCAM) and the "Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine" (OCCAM) spend a combined 240 million U.S. Dollars of taxpayers' money from the NIH (National Institute of Health).<ref>Salzberg S. Save taxpayer $$$: Eliminate alternative medicine research. Forbes.com, 18. Juni 2010 [http://blogs.forbes.com/sciencebiz/2010/06/save-taxpayer-eliminate-alternative-medicine-research/]</ref>