The literature search for Bloom et al.'s review (Bloom BS, Retbi A, Dahan S, Jonsson E. Evaluation of randomized controlled trials on complementary and alternative medicine. IJTAHC, 2000;16:13–21) adopted and inadequate search strategy (an appropriate search of the Cochrane library finds nearly four times as many trials), excluded foreign languages, in which many CAM trials are published, and examined only blinded studies, when many CAM techniques (chiropractic, yoga) and associated outcomes (back pain, anxiety) are difficult to blind. The authors then complain about a lack of data. Is there such a term as “Procrustean” review?