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Cancer quackery going the distance
You’d think that after all these years combatting quackery and blogging about science in medicine (and, unfortunately, pseudoscience in medicine) it would take a lot to shock me. You’d be right. On the other hand, Even now, 15 years after I discovered quackery in a big way on Usenet and ten years after the inception…
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 3, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking energy healing Jerry Sargeant quantum The Facilitator Source Type: blogs

A commercial for acupuncture masquerading as news
I didn’t think I’d be writing about acupuncture again so soon after deconstructing another “bait and switch” acupuncture study less than a week ago. True, the quackery that is acupuncture and the seemingly unending varieties of low quality studies published to make it seem as though there is anything more than nonspecific placebo effects invoked…
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 1, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery acupuncture Atlanta Center for Holistic and Integrative Medicine Bill Nelson Biopulsar-Ayurvedic Bioenergetic Screening breast cancer CNN EPFX/Quantum Xrro Source Type: blogs

Acupuncture bait and switch: Hot flash edition
It’s always disappointing to see a good journal fall for bad medicine, particularly when it’s in your field. For example, the Journal of Clinical Oncology (affectionately referred to by its abbreviation JCO) is the official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and probably the most read clinical journal by those involved in…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 26, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery acupuncture breast cancer electroacupuncture gabapentin hot flashes menopause placebo Source Type: blogs

Acupuncture bait and switch: Electrified hot flash edition
It’s always disappointing to see a good journal fall for bad medicine, particularly when it’s in your field. For example, the Journal of Clinical Oncology (affectionately referred to by its abbreviation JCO) is the official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and probably the most read clinical journal by those involved in…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 26, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery acupuncture breast cancer electroacupuncture gabapentin hot flashes menopause placebo Source Type: blogs

Cassandra Callender, the teen who refused chemotherapy, speaks out to a quack
A recurring topic on this blog involves my discussion of stories about children with cancer whose parents refuse chemotherapy, thus endangering the children’s lives. These stories usually take this general form: The child is diagnosed with a deadly, but treatable cancer that has a high probability of cure with proper chemotherapy. The child receives the…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 18, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking Cassandra Callender chemotherapy Hodgkin's lymphoma Jackie Fortin Ty Bollinger Source Type: blogs

Is there a place for alternative therapy in cancer treatment?
I vividly remember meeting her, despite all the years that had passed. At 6 feet tall she towered over me (granted, anyone who has met me will know that’s not hard to imagine) and yes, I’ll admit it — she had physically intimidated me. But about 10 minutes into the initial consultation, I realized she was soft-spoken, kind, and, being recently diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer, she was scared. Surgery had not been recommended given the advanced nature of the disease, and she was sent to me to discuss medical therapy. She had been told it was not curable, had read that the prognosis wasn’t very good. “L...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 9, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Meds Cancer Source Type: blogs

Is there a role for homeopathy in cancer care? I think you know the answer to that question…
Homeopathy is The One Quackery To Rule Them All. There, I’ve started off this post the way I start off most posts about homeopathy, with a statement of just how enormous a pile of pseudoscientific (or rather prescientific) quackery that it is. You’d think that in 2015 no one would believe that diluting a substance…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 3, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy breast cancer integrative oncology Moshe Frenkel pseudoscience Source Type: blogs

Another unnecessary death in the making, thanks to cancer quackery
I hate stories like this, but what I hate even more is the way stories like this are all too commonly reported. Readers have been sending me links to stories about a woman named Alex Wynn that have been published over the last few days, in particular this story about her in the Daily Mail…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 28, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Popular culture Quackery Alex Wynn ascorbate breast cancer carrots chemotherapy Daily Fail Daily Mail HCG human chorionic gonadotropin juicing Matt Baker Navarro Clinic Navarro Source Type: blogs

When the antiabortion movement meets the antivaccine movement…
Many are the lies and epic is the misinformation spread by the antivaccine movement. For instance, they claim that vaccines cause autism, autoimmune diseases, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), cancer, and a wide variety of other conditions and diseases when there is no credible evidence that they do and lots of evidence that they don’t.…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 27, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking abortion Center for Medical Progress David Daleiden fetal DNA Theresa Deisher vaccines Source Type: blogs

Nicholas Gonzalez: The latest victim of the pharma assassins?
The conspiracy deepens. What conspiracy? You ask. Haven’t you heard? Big pharma is out killing alternative medicine doctors! Or at least that’s what you’ll be told if you venture towards the deep dark underbelly of quack websites. Up until now, the most prominent “victim” was autism quack, Jeff Bradstreet, who, according to police, committed suicide…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 24, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Erin Elizabeth Joe Mercola Nicholas Gonzalez Source Type: blogs

When doctors betray their profession
And now for something completely different…but depressingly the same in some ways. Longtime readers—and I do mean longtime—might remember from several years ago a certain case adjudicated before the Vaccine Court. I’m referring, of course, to the Autism Omnibus. In Autism Omnibus, some 4,800 claimants were bringing action seeking compensation for “vaccine injury” characterized by…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 21, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics expert witness head and neck Kim R. Jones lawsuits Merrill A. Biel otolaryngology Robert K. Jackler shills tobacco Willard E. Fee Source Type: blogs

Poor Quality Sleep: A Silent Source of Disability in Breast Cancer
The post below ran on Huffington Post Healthy Living on May 13. It is authored by Hrayr Attarian, MD, FACCP, FAASM, Member of the Society for Women’s Health Rearch Network on Sleep and Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Research Lab for the Society for Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep. Poor quality sleep is a major contributor to reduced quality of life and can have a negative impact on mood and energy, cognition, metabolic and immunological function, as well as lead to weight gain [3]. Sleep-related complaints are quite common in women with b...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Does medical marijuana work? The answer is (mostly) “no” and “we don’t know”
My opinion about medical marijuana has been fairly consistent. First, the claims made by its advocates for it far exceed the evidence for its benefit, which is why I’ve referred to it as the “new herbalism.” Of course, it’s not really very new, but it is herbalism in that medical marijuana advocates make grandiose claims…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 24, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Science Skepticism/critical thinking cannabinoids chemotherapy medical marijuana nausea pain spasticity Source Type: blogs

The exaggeration that is “food as medicine”
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – attributed to Hippocrates Who said anything about medicine? Let’s eat! – attributed to one of Hippocrates forgotten (and skeptical) students   Who hasn’t seen or heard Hippocrates’ famous quote about letting food be your medicine and your medicine your food? If you have Facebook…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 8, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking food Hippocrates Source Type: blogs

In Memoriam: Wallace Sampson, MD
I have some sad news for my readers today. It’s even sadder given that it’s only been two and a half weeks since I last had to mourn the passing of one of our own, a champion of science-based medicine, a regular commenter of five years, lilady. Unfortunately, this time around, it is my sad…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 1, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking laetrile science-based medicine Wallace Sampson Source Type: blogs