Former University of NSW head of medicine and founder of Friends of Science in Medicine, Emeritus Professor John Dwyer, called for state-based regulators and the national registration body AHPRA to actively seek out unregistered practitioners who may be promising results without scientific support.
“All of [the regulators] work on an ‘after the event’ protocol,” Professor Dwyer said.
“They’re not out there looking to see what rubbish is on the net and moving in to say, ‘Hey, you’re making this claim, you can’t’,” he said.
“[Australia needs] consumer protection that says if you are charging money for a health service and you have no credibility and no credentials, that’s illegal… and there should be very heavy penalties for it.”
http://www.medicalobserver.com.au/news/demand-for-sanctions-on-alternative-therapists
