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Move Along, No Health Care Corruption to See Here
Health care corruption, remains a largely taboo topic, especially when it occurs in developed countries like the US. Searching PubMed or major medical and health care journals at best will reveal a few articles on health care corruption, nearly all about corruption somewhere else than the authors' countries, usually in someplace much poorer. While the media may publish stories about issues related to health care corruption, they are almost never so labelled.Yet Transparency International's report on global health care corruption suggested it occurs in all countries. A recent TI survey showed that 43% of U...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 21, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: bribery Cancer Research and Prevention Institute complementary/ alternative medicine health care corruption Source Type: blogs
Dr. Frank Arguello doesn’t much like science-based criticism of his atavistic chemotherapy
As I happened to be out last night at a function for my department, I didn’t have the time necessary to lay out a 2,000 word bit of Insolence. I did, however, have time to note that yet another practitioner unhappy with being criticized over his scientifically questionable treatment, in this case, Dr. Frank Arguello,…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 20, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking atavism atavistic chemotherapy atavistic oncology Frank Arguello Source Type: blogs
Medical marijuana and the new herbalism, part 2: The cult of “cannabis cures cancer”
About five weeks ago a month ago, I finally wrote the post I had been promising to write for months before about medical marijuana. At the time, I also promised that there would be follow-up posts. Like Dug the Dog seeing a squirrel, I kept running into other topics that kept me from revisiting the…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 18, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Biology Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine History Skepticism/critical thinking cannabinoids cannabis marijuana medical marijuana Source Type: blogs
“Atavistic chemotherapy”: A new form of cancer quackery based on misunderstanding evolution?
Not infrequently, I’m asked why it is that I do what I do. Why do I spend so many hours of my free time, both here and at my not-so-super-secret other blog (NSSSOB), to write my detailed analyses of various forms of quackery, analyses of scientific studies, and expressions of my dismay at the infiltration…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 8, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Evolution Quackery Science atavism atavistic chemotherapy Charley Lineweaver Frank Arguello Paul Davies Source Type: blogs
“Atavistic chemotherapy”: A new form of cancer quackery based on misunderstanding evolution
Not infrequently, I’m asked why it is that I do what I do. Why do I spend so many hours of my free time, both here and at my not-so-super-secret other blog (NSSSOB), to write my detailed analyses of various forms of quackery, analyses of scientific studies, and expressions of my dismay at the infiltration…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 8, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Evolution Quackery Science atavism atavistic chemotherapy Charley Lineweaver Frank Arguello Paul Davies Source Type: blogs
Chiropractic “research” and autism
Leave it to my good buddy Mark Crislip over at the Society for Science-Based Medicine to have my back when I don’t have a lot of time for a detailed post. (Basically, I was being a good university and cancer center citizen last night, going out to dinner with a visiting professor, and I ended…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 30, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery adjustment bad research Chiropractic subluxation Source Type: blogs
The Texas Medical Board vs. Stanislaw Burzynski, Round Infinity
There’s a point I feel that I have have to make briefly as I begin this post. Basically, this might look familiar, but given that I was at TAM Wednesday through Sunday, I didn’t have time to produce two separate posts, and this is important enough to be distributed as widely as possible. In any…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 14, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery antineoplaston Food and Drug Administration Stanislaw Burzynski Texas Medical Board Source Type: blogs
A Scottish doctor endorses Robert O. Young’s “pH Miracle Living”
I didn’t think I’d be revisiting this topic so quickly. However, given that I’m at TAM and I don’t have a lot of time to do one of my usual 2,000 word epics for a change, I thought that this story, which popped up the other day while I was traveling was at least worth…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 11, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Avril Campbell-Danesh Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre Booth Danesh breast cancer colonic live blood cell analysis Robert O. Young thermography thyroid Source Type: blogs
How To Create Medical Research To Support Bogus Therapies, In Nine Easy Steps
Twenty years ago I started my job as ‘Professor of Complementary Medicine’ at the University of Exeter and became a full-time researcher of all matters related to alternative medicine. One issue that was discussed endlessly during these early days was the question whether alternative medicine can be investigated scientifically. There were many vociferous proponents of the view that it was too subtle, too individualised, too special for that and that it defied science in principle. Alternative medicine, they claimed, needed an alternative to science to be validated. I spent my time arguing the opposite, of course,...
Source: Better Health - July 7, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: admin Tags: Humor Quackery Exposed Research Alternative Medicine Bad Research Bogus Claims CAM Complementary And Alternative Medicine False Claims Misinformation Pseudoscience Statistics Source Type: blogs
The Center for Inquiry weighs in on Stanislaw Burzynski
Our regularly scheduled post will go live later this morning. In the meantime, this is a public service announcement…with GUITAR! (Oh, wait.) As you recall, last week, the FDA inexplicably decided to lift the partial clinical hold on Stanislaw Burzynski’s bogus clinical trials of antineoplastons, which he’s used since the 1990s as a pretext to…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 3, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery antineoplastons Center for Inquiry fda Stanislaw Burzynski Source Type: blogs
What’s going on with Robert O. Young?
There is no doubt in my mind that Robert O. Young is among the worst cancer quacks I have ever encountered. I’ve never been able to figure out how he manages to continue to practice after over 20 years, given the egregiousness of his quackery. Indeed, I was overjoyed when I learned back in January…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Quackery alkaline diet Robert O. Young Source Type: blogs
Back to the future with the healing energy of reiki
Over the last two days, both Mark Crislip and Jann Bellamy wrote great pieces over at Science-Based Medicine about reiki. In particular, Jann Bellamy discussed reiki starting with an example that I’ve been citing in my talks about the infiltration of quackademic medicine into medical academia for at least four or five years now: The…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 13, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Cleveland Clinic Foundation faith healing Harvard University James Deacon M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Reiki universal source Yale University Source Type: blogs
Quackademic medicine infiltrates a major cancer conference
As if yesterday’s post weren’t depressing enough, last weekend I attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago, which is part of the reason I didn’t produce much in the way of posts about a week ago. Last Sunday, while aimlessly wandering from session to session and checking…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 10, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery American Society of Clinical Oncology ASCO integrative oncology quackademic medicine Source Type: blogs
Stanislaw Burzynski publishes his antineoplaston results again. It’s no more convincing than last time.
Here we go again. Two months ago, I noted that Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, the Polish expatriate physician who started out as a legitimate medical researcher and then in the late 1970s took a turn away from science-based medicine and towards being a “brave maverick doctor” through his discovery in blood and urine of substances he…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 9, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine antineoplastons Crystin Schiff glioma Journal of Cancer Therapy phenylacetate Ric Schiff Stanislaw Burzynski Source Type: blogs
Integrative medicine does not “bring deeper meaning to personalized health care”
I’ve discussed the evolution of “integrative” medicine on many occasions. To make the long story discussed over many posts short, medicine based on prescientific and/or unscientific ideas was once, appropriately, referred to as quackery, and those practicing it, appropriately, as quacks or charlatans—or other derogatory terms. Then, beginning sometime around the 1960s and 1970s, such…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 6, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery integrative medicine integrative oncology personalized medicine Source Type: blogs
