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An Ontario court dooms a First Nations girl with cancer: Who’s to blame?
I figured that yesterday’s post about the First Nations girl in Ontario with lymphoblastic leukemia whose parents stopped her chemotherapy in favor of “traditional” medicine would stir up a bit of controversy, and so it did, albeit much more at my not-so-super-secret other blog, which featured an expanded version of this post. Don’t worry, you…
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 18, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking aborigine Brian Clement chemotherapy First Nations health freedom Justice Gethin Edward lymphoblastic leukemia Makayla Sault M Source Type: blogs
An Ontario court dooms a First Nations girl with cancer
A few weeks ago, Steve Novella invited me on his podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, to discuss a cancer case that has been in the news for several months now. The case was about an 11-year-old girl with leukemia who is a member of Canada’s largest aboriginal community. Steve wrote about this case…
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 17, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Politics Quackery Religion Science aborigine Abraham Cherrix Amish Bio-energy treatment Brian Clement chemotherapy cold laser therapy Daniel Hauser detox First Natio Source Type: blogs
Reiki propaganda in U.S. News & World Report
Sigh. Just a week ago, I deconstructed an awful article touting how the mass of prescientific quackery known as traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as somehow being “validated” by modern science. Specifically, some truly misguided scientists were attempting to use modern systems biology techniques to look for biomarkers associated with TCM diagnoses such as “hot” or…
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 11, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking Anna Medaris Miller biofield energy healing quackademic medicine Reiki Shamini Jain Simmons Cancer Institute Southern Illinois University School of Source Type: blogs
“Autism-induced” breast cancer
Gayle DeLong has been diagnosed with what she refers to as “autism-induced” breast cancer.” She’s even given it an abbreviation, AIBC. Unfortunately, as you might be able to tell by the name she’s given her breast cancer, she is also showing signs of falling into the same errors in thinking with respect to her breast…
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 7, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery alternative cancer cures autism-induced breast cancer chemotherapy Gayle DeLong local recurrence radiation the Source Type: blogs
R.I.P., McKenzie Lowe. Stanislaw Burzynski failed you.
R.I.P., McKenzie Lowe. Unfortunately, Stanislaw Burzynski was no more able to save you than anyone else, his claims of great success treating pediatric brain tumors notwithstanding: HUDSON — Thirteen-year-old Hudson resident McKenzie Lowe died Friday evening after a 2-year-battle against an aggressive and inoperable brain stem tumor. McKenzie died at 10:27 p.m. in her own…
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 30, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science antineoplastons McKenzie Lowe Stanislaw Burzynski Terry Bennett Texas Medical Board Source Type: blogs
Ebola, “right-to-try,” and placebo legislation
One of the biggest medical conspiracy theories for a long time has been that there exist out there all sorts of fantastic cures for cancer and other deadly diseases but you can’t have them because (1) “they” don’t want you to know about them (as I like to call it, the Kevin Trudeau approach) and/or…
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 28, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Popular culture Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking antineoplastons Arizona colorado Dallas Buyers Club Ebola fda Food and Drug Administration G Source Type: blogs
The Saatchi bill won’t find a cure for cancer, but it will encourage charlatans
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Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi is an advertising man who, with his brother, Charles Saatchi ("‘why tell the truth when a good lie will do?), became very rich by advertising cigarettes and the Conservative party. After his second wife died of cancer he introduced a private members bill in the House of Lords in 2012. The Medical Innovation Bill came back to the Lords for its second reading on 24 October 2014.
The debate was deeply depressing: very pompous and mostly totally uninformed. You would never have guessed that the vast majority of those who understand the problem are a...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 24, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: business CAM cancer Cancer act Saatchi Bill alternative medicine antiscience badscience Source Type: blogs
An anonymous Canadian foundation grants $4 million to study “integrative oncology”
Supporters of science-based medicine and keeping pseudoscience out of medicine have a few years to prepare for an onslaught of crappy studies “proving” the value of “integrative” oncology. No doubt at this point you’re wondering just what the heck Orac is talking about. I will tell you. It involves an institution we’ve encountered before and…
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 22, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery Andrew Seely Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Dugald Seely Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre Tho Source Type: blogs
An Update on a Trial of Chimeric Antigen Receptor Methods of Targeting Cancer Cells
A trial has been running in leukemia patients using immune cells modified to express a variety of chimeric antigen receptors. This allows the immune cells to recognize and attack cancer cells with a high degree of specificity, and the early results in the trial were impressive. Here is a more recent update:
The blood cells of cancer patients, reprogrammed by doctors to attack their leukemia and re-infused back into the patients' veins, led to complete remissions in 27 of 30 people. That's especially exciting because those patients had failed all conventional treatments. Not all of the remissions lasted. Nineteen patients ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Antiperspirants: Not a cause of breast cancer
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post in which I explained why wearing a bra does not cause breast cancer. After I had finished the post, it occurred to me that I should have saved that post for now, given that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The reason is that, like clockwork, pretty…
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 13, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking antiperspirant breast cancer epidemiology myth parabens Source Type: blogs
And so it begins: Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings out the cancer quacks
As I mentioned yesterday, here it’s that time of year again: October. Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While the topic of my post then was how antivaccine activists have tried to glom on to the attention that Breast Cancer Awareness Month gets in order to create their fake “awareness month” known as “Vaccine Injury Awareness Month,”…
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 2, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Bernd Klein breast cancer cholesterol cleanse German New Medicine Kevin Trudeau Leonard Coldwell raw vegan Robert O. Young Source Type: blogs
Antivaccine cranks try to create Vaccine Injury Awareness Month. Everyone either yawns or laughs.
Normally, these days I greet the month of October with a mixture of anticipation and dread. The anticipation stems from October’s position as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Now that somehow I’ve managed to have a variety of responsibilities with respect to how breast cancer is managed at our cancer institute, suddenly I find that I’m…
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine #hearthiswell #VaxTruth CDCwhistleblower October Vaccine Injury Awareness Month Source Type: blogs
Mike Adams and “natural biopreparedness” against Ebola and pandemics
This one will be much shorter than usual, mainly because I was out late last night for a dinner function at which I was on a panel of breast cancer experts. I must admit, even after having been an attending surgeon for 15 years, it never ceases to make me feel a bit weird to…
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 18, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery Ebola Ebola virus disease epidemic Health Ranger herbalism Herbs Mike Adams pandemic preparedness traditional Chinese medicine Source Type: blogs
Homeopathy for hemorrhoids? What a pain in the…well, you know
In a past life, before I became so specialized, I was a general surgeon. Like all surgical oncologists and even breast surgeons, before I became a specialist, I had to do a general surgery residency. In addition to the usual cancer problems a general surgeon faces, the two most common being breast and colon cancer,…
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 15, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery Surgery anal fissure hemorrhoid Source Type: blogs
