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TEQSA defends accreditation of alternative medicine courses
The acting chief commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Nick Saunders, has defended its accreditation of complementary and alternative medicine courses following heavy criticism from senior medical academic figures.
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It is clear that if TEQSA does not have the legislative role to decide where pseudo-science is being taught as a ‘medical’ discipline, then it should have at least the moral courage to state that it doubts the scientific basis of such treatments. We are dealing with peoples’ health and well being here. What would they do with a course in business which described and encouraged fraudulent behaviour, all be it within the law? As for theology, it can be taught as a non-religious subject with all the doubts and controversies included in the course. They could ensure, at least, that it be objective theology.