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In which I am called an astroturfer and generously offered a chance at unconditional surrender by antivaccine cranks
Ever since the Disneyland measles outbreak hit high gear last month and permeated the national consciousness, the antivaccine movement has, justifiably, been on the defensive. We’ve been treated to the spectacle of a truly despicable cardiologist spewing antivaccine nonsense with an added dollop of contempt for parents of children with cancer who are worried about…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 19, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking Age of Autism astroturf CDC whistleblower CDCwhistleblower Mike Adams ScienceBlogs.com Sharyl Attkisson unconditional surrend Source Type: blogs
A Speculative Example of Slowing Aging via Plasma Transfer
In conclusion these findings showed that PRP has potential to delay aging through the recovery of stem cell senescence and could be used as an alternative medicine for tissue regeneration and future rejuvenation.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.08.034
Source: Fight Aging! - February 16, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Brian Clement and the Hippocrates Health Institute: Cancer quackery on steroids
I think we’ve spent enough time on Bill Maher’s antivaccine posturing for now. There really isn’t much more to say for now. I’m sure he’ll probably dump some pseudoscientific nonsense about medicine on his show to provide me with more blogging material. Today, I’m moved to revisit a certain cancer quack whose offenses are threatening…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 11, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Politics Quackery Brian Clement detox footbath Hippocrates Health Institute wheatgrass Source Type: blogs
How to talk to your patients about alternative medicine
A woman told me she saw her physician recently and, when she told him all the things she was doing to help herself, naturally he told her he practices Western medicine and that he does not believe in that stuff.
Not a good conversation.
A number of research studies have found that one in three patients routinely use alternative treatments, but seven out of 10 users of alternative therapies do not tell their physicians. Complementary treatments are used more commonly among people diagnosed with chronic or life-threatening conditions. Patients with AIDS, cancer, and chronic mental-health illness often seek alternative treatm...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 1, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Mel Borins, MD Tags: Meds Medications Source Type: blogs
Dr. Oz’s “green coffee bean extract” scammer guest must repay $9 million
If there’s one aspect of 2014 that I enjoyed, it’s that it was a very bad year for our old friend, America’s quack, a.k.a. Dr. Mehmet Oz. It seemed that, finally, some of the chickens were coming home to roost and Dr. Oz was starting to suffer a bit for his promotion of quackery and…
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 28, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Naturopathy Quackery Television America's quack black raspberry cancer FTC green coffee bean extract Lindsey Duncan Mehmet Oz scam supplement weight loss Source Type: blogs
A tale of two unnecessarily doomed aboriginal girls with leukemia
I’m depressed and angry as I write this. The reason for this is simple. I hate it when cancer quacks claim the lives of patients with cancer, particularly patients who were eminently treatable for cure. It’s happened again, and it makes me sad. Florida cancer quack Brian Clement has claimed the life of Makayla Sault,…
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 20, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery Religion Brian Clement Canada chemotherapy First Nations Florida Hippocrates Health Institute indigenous medicine lymphoblastic leukemia Makayla Sault Ojibwe Ong Source Type: blogs
Jess Ainscough finally admits her condition is deteriorating
Not being Australian and, for some reason, never having encountered her promotion of “natural health” online before, I first encountered Jessica Ainscough, also known as “The Wellness Warrior” over a year ago when I learned that her mother Sharyn Ainscough had died of breast cancer. Her mother, it turns out, had rejected conventional treatment for…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 16, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery epithelioid sarcoma forequarter amputation Gerson therapy Jess Ainscough Wellness Warrior Source Type: blogs
The Dublin doctor who is not beating cancer
As I’ve said so many times before, this blog is my hobby. I write about what interests me for my own amusement. If it also interests you, that’s awesome. Fortunately, I’ve found that several thousand people a day do like what I lay down on a daily basis, sometimes with occasional spikes to ridiculous levels…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 10, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery animal protein China study Colin Campbell Gonzalez protocol John Kelly John Spain Nicholas vegan diet Source Type: blogs
Quackademic medicine marches on: Essential oils and quackademia for the poor
After having written about how the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) has promoted guidelines for cancer patients that are—shall we say?—less than scientifically rigorous, I was immediately confronted with just what we face in academic medicine when it comes to the infiltration of quackery, or, as I like to call it, quackademic medicine. It came…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 9, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Quackery AIM Health Institute essential oils George Washington University Medical Center GW Center for Integrative Medicine Source Type: blogs
Old wine in a new skin: The Society for Integrative Oncology promotes integrating pseudoscience into oncology
Last week, I discussed a monograph published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs entitled Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Use of Integrative Therapies as Supportive Care in Patients Treated for Breast Cancer. As you might remember, I was completely unimpressed. However, those guidelines were not the only thing in that particular JNCI…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 8, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking integrative medicine integrative oncology society for integrative oncology Source Type: blogs
A cancer cure testimonial for “traditional healing” of leukemia
Cancer cure testimonials due to alternative medicine have been a staple of this blog since its very inception. Unfortunately, another staple of this blog since very early on has included stories of children with cancer whose lives have been endangered when their their parents refuse effective cancer therapy for their cancer, in particular chemotherapy. The…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 4, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Anishnawbe Anishnawbe Mushkiki Brian Clement Canada chemotherapy Daryl Archie Eddie Two-Teeth First Nations Jody Porter Source Type: blogs
The Central Dogma of Alternative Medicine
I happened to have a busy day yesterday, and in addition today’s a deadline to submit a letter of intent for a grant application, as well as to write a response to some criticism in a letter to the editor of my recent Nature Reviews Cancer article. (Trust me, it’s fun.) Never one to let…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 3, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Religion cancer Central Dogma quacks Source Type: blogs
No, childhood vaccines will not be “made from human tumors”
Every so often there’s an article that starts making the rounds on social media, in particular Facebook and Twitter, that cries out for a treatment by yours truly. Actually, there are more such articles that are constantly circulating on social media that I could work full time blogging and still not cover them all. So…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 2, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking A549 anthrax cherry picking DNA fda HeLa HIV influenza Marion Gruber NIAID PaxVax PCR quote mining Rebecca Sh Source Type: blogs
Old wine in a new skin: The Society for Integrative Oncology issues guidelines for breast cancer
It should come as a surprise to no one that I’m not exactly a fan of “integrative oncology”—or integrative medicine, or “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), or whatever its proponents want to call it these days. After all, I’ve spent nearly ten years writing this blog and nearly seven years running another blog dedicated to…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture American Cancer Society Chiropractic clinical guidelines Consortium of Academic Health Centers for In Source Type: blogs
The invasion of well-meaning quacks into West Africa continues apace, part three
I hope my U.S. readers have all had a happy Thanksgiving. Today has been known at least since the mid-1970s as Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. Whether it’s still true or not, given the relentless proliferation, progression, and metastasis—yes, the use of terms related to cancer is intentional—of holiday sales right…
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 28, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Ebola Freundes Liberias Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis Monrovia Richard Hiltner Thomas Köppig Source Type: blogs
