Talk:Environmental medicine

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The American Academy of Env. Med. ref'd here is widely considered an illegitimate quack organization. PalMD (talk) 22:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Widely? By who? We must cite our sources. Xabadiar (talk) 13:11, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I just found the answer here: "The AAEM has been cited as an illegitimate organization by quackwatch." More specifically Quackwatch's founder Mr Barret states that the AAEM promotes "the bogus (i.e. not genuine or true) concept of Multiple chemical sensitivity." [1]. Xabadiar (talk) 17:57, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion[edit]

There are two categories of "environmental medicine": (1) The "legitimate" one, described in this article, and represented by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The OCOEM oversees Board Certification in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. It is recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties, and (2) Clinical ecology, sometimes called EM, represented by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. It too has a certifying board, the American Board of Environmental Medicine. It is not recognized by the ABMS, and is widely considered "alternative" or "fringe".

These two categories should be kept segregated in separate articles, or sets of articles.

Valerius Tygart (talk) 17:11, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also this page should maybe be merged with Conservation medicine.