Charles, The Alternative Prince by Edzard Ernst

Charles, The Alternative Prince by Edzard Ernst

Prince Charles has entertained a long-standing love affair with alternative medicine. This book describes his passion as it developed during the last 40 years. The Prince's beliefs, opinions, and ambitions are critically assessed against the background of the scientific evidence. In most instances, the contrast could not be starker. Thus, Charles' tenacious promotion of unproven, disproven, and occasionally harmful alternative therapies turns out to be little more than the pipe dream of a self-declared enemy of the Enlightenment. The book portrays our future king, reviews the evidence on alternative medicine, and inspires critical thinking.

Edzard Ernst is an emeritus professor who has studied alternative medicine for the past 20 years. Ernst did extensive scientific investigations of alternative medicine with an emphasis on efficacy and safety as the world's first professor of complementary medicine (at the University of Exeter). He has over 1000 peer-reviewed articles to his credit, as well as multiple books, including the best-selling Trick or Treatment, co-authored with Simon Singh. The 2015 John Maddox Award for Speaking Up for Science was shared by Edzard Ernst.