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Editorial |
eCAM benefits from diversity that derives from CAM
Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763, USA
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‘Diversity’ is now a magic word, showing up everywhere and often used to embrace many aspects of human activity, whether in government, the arts, sciences, research, choice of research subjects or so on. In many respects diversity represents an encompassing teamwork, and we all know the success of teams in sports in popular terms and the rewards of successful research teams. Thus, we can safely conclude that a diverse team can be a creative team since when investigators of different points of view are brought together, they ponder and question the interpretations, procedures and practices of others. Such is the case for the scientific approach (1). Thus, often butting heads, sometimes even locking horns in healthy debate, is most often
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