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 Harkin drew support from Iowa Democrat Representative [[Berkley Bedell]], who believed that cow [[colostrum]] had cured his [[Lyme disease]].<ref name="Offit"/>
-The OAM's budget grew in the 1990s. The office drew increasing criticism for its perceived lack of rigorous scientific study of alternative approaches favoring uncritical boosterism. [[Paul Berg]], a [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate in chemistry]], wrote to the Senate{{When|date=November 2022}} that "[[Quackery]] will always prey on the gullible and uninformed, but we should not provide it with cover from the NIH," and called the office "an embarrassment to serious scientists".<ref name=OAMGUB/><ref name=QMHCHF/>{{rp|175}} Allen Bromley, then-president of the [[American Physical Society]], similarly wrote to Congress{{When|date=November 2022}} that the OAM had "emerged as an undiscriminating advocate of unconventional medicine. It has bestowed the considerable prestige of the NIH on a variety of highly dubious practices, some of which clearly violate basic laws of physics".<ref name="natural-causes"/><ref name="OAMGUB">{{Cite web |last=Smaglik |first=Paul |date=November 9, 1997 |title=Office Of Alternative Medicine Gets Unexpected Boost |url=https://www.the-scientist.com/news/office-of-alternative-medicine-gets-unexpected-boost-57249 |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=The Scientist Magazine® |language=en}}</ref><ref name=QMHCHF/>{{rp|175}} [[Leon Jaroff]], writing for ''[[The New York Times]]'' in 1997, described the OAM as "Tom Harkin's folly".<ref name="bee-pollen">{{cite news |work=New York Times | title = Bee Pollen Bureaucracy | first = Leon | last = Jaroff | date = October 6, 1997 | access-date =April 13, 2009 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/06/opinion/bee-pollen-bureaucracy.html}}</ref>
+The OAM's budget grew in the 1990s. The office drew increasing criticism for its perceived lack of rigorous scientific study of alternative approaches favoring uncritical boosterism. [[Paul Berg]], a [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate in chemistry]], wrote to the Senate{{When|date=November 2022}} that "[[Quackery]] will always prey on the gullible and uninformed, but we should not provide it with cover from the NIH," and called the office "an embarrassment to serious scientists".<ref name=OAMGUB/><ref name=QMHCHF/>{{rp|175}} Allen Bromley, then-president of the [[American Physical Society]], similarly wrote to Congress{{When|date=November 2022}} that the OAM had "emerged as an undiscriminating advocate of unconventional medicine. It has bestowed the considerable prestige of the NIH on a variety of highly dubious practices, some of which clearly violate basic laws of physics".<ref name="natural-causes"/><ref name="OAMGUB">{{Cite web |last=Smaglik |first=Paul |date=November 9, 1997 |title=Office Of Alternative Medicine Gets Unexpected Boost |url=https://www.the-scientist.com/news/office-of-alternative-medicine-gets-unexpected-boost-57249 |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=The Scientist Magazine® |language=en}}</ref><ref name=QMHCHF/>{{rp|175}} [[Leon Jaroff]], writing for ''The New York Times'' in 1997, described the OAM as "Tom Harkin's folly".<ref name="bee-pollen">{{cite news |work=New York Times | title = Bee Pollen Bureaucracy | first = Leon | last = Jaroff | date = October 6, 1997 | access-date =April 13, 2009 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/06/opinion/bee-pollen-bureaucracy.html}}</ref>
 In 1995, [[Wayne Jonas]], a promoter of [[homeopathy]] and political ally of Harkin, became the director of the OAM, and continued in that role until 1999.<ref>National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), Skeptics Dictionary, [http://skepdic.com/NCCAM.html]</ref> In 1997, the NCCAM budget was increased from $12&nbsp;million to $20&nbsp;million annually.<ref name=OAMGUB/> From 1990 to 1997, use of alternative medicine in the US increased by 25%, with a corresponding 50% increase in expenditures.<ref name=Eisenberg1998>{{cite journal |title= Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990–1997: Results of a follow-up national survey |journal= JAMA |last1= Eisenberg |first1= D.M.|last2= Davis |first2= R.B. |last3= Ettner |first3= S.L. |last4= Appel |first4= S. |last5= Wilkey |first5= S. |last6= Van Rompay |first6= M. |last7= Kessler |first7= R.C. |volume= 280 |issue= 18 |pages= 1569–1575 |pmid= 9820257 |doi= 10.1001/jama.280.18.1569 |year= 1998 |ref={{harvid|Eisenberg et al.|1998}}|display-authors= 1 |doi-access=  }}</ref> The OAM drew increasing criticism from eminent members of the scientific community with letters to the Senate Appropriations Committee when discussion of renewal of funding OAM came up.<ref name="QMHCHF">{{Cite book |last=Boyle |first=Eric W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2YCTohiBpYC&dq=%22Office+for+the+Study+of+Unconventional+Medical+Practices%22+oam&pg=PA170 |title=Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America |date=2013-01-09 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-38568-1 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|175}} In 1998, the President of the North Carolina Medical Association publicly called for shutting down the OAM.<ref name="WNCCAMSBD">{{Cite web |last=Sampson |first=Wallace |date=2002-12-10 |title=Why the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Should Be Defunded |url=https://quackwatch.org/related/nccam/ |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=Quackwatch |language=en-US}}</ref>