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Mike Adams turns his mad science skillz to analyzing a flu vaccine. Hilarity ensues.
It’s always jarring when I go to a scientific meeting, in this case the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, imbibe the latest clinical science on cancer, and then check back to see what the quacks are doing. On the other hand, there was a session at this year’s ASCO on “integrative oncology” (stay…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 3, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking aluminum FluLaval influenza mercury Mike Adams thimerosal Source Type: blogs
Compare and contrast: Real cancer research versus Stanislaw Burzynski
I happen to be out of town right now, attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. It’s been a more—shall we say?—eventful trip than anticipated, which is why at my not-so-super-secret other blog we have a guest post today and here I will (probably) be shorter than usual. I’m…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 2, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine antineoplastons Liza Cozad-Lauser McKenzie Lowe Sammy Hagar Stanislaw Burzynski Source Type: blogs
We’ve heard this story before: Raising loads of cash for unproven treatments
Being a cancer surgeon, I realize that my tendency is to view my blogging material through the prism of cancer, particularly breast cancer, my specialty. it’s easy to forget that there are diseases every bit as horrible, some arguably even more so than the worst cancer. When I think of such diseases, it’s not surprising…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 29, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking amyotropic lateral sclerosis CellTex Therapeutics GoFundMe Lou Gehrig's disease Lynne Grainger riluzole stem cells Source Type: blogs
The “Health Ranger” Mike Adams engages in legal thuggery against a critic
I hadn’t really planned on writing again about everyone’s favorite conspiracy theorist and promoter of quackery, Mike Adams, at least not so soon after the last time I did it, which was only last week after Adams appeared on Dr. Oz’s daytime television show to push his “laboratory.” Adams, as you might recall, goes by…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 19, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine History Holocaust Quackery anti-science Forbes.com Health Ranger Jon Entine Keith Kloor legal threat legal thuggery libel Mike Adams Natural Source Type: blogs
A lesson about correlation and causation
Besides yesterday being Mothers’ Day yesterday, I had a lot of grant stuff to do, which means that this one will be a quickie. On Saturday, a reader sent me a link to one of the most useful sites I’ve ever encountered. I realize that over the weekend it’s spread around the skeptical blogosphere like…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 12, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Autism cancer causation cell phones correlation vaccines Source Type: blogs
How “they” view “us” (2014 edition)
A week ago or so, I was perusing my Google Alerts, along with various blogs and news websites, looking for something to blog about, when I noticed a disturbance in the pseudoscience Force. It’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed many times before from a wide variety of cranks and quacks, but it all boils down to…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 5, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine History Holocaust denial Skepticism/critical thinking mammography Stanislaw Burzynski vaccines Source Type: blogs
The “Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2014″: Pernicious “health freedom” nonsense that degrades human research subject protections
I was torn about what to blog about today. There were lots of things floating around that caught my eye and appear worthy of of a little taste of Insolence, either Respectful or not-so-Respectful, so much so that I couldn’t decide. None of them really stuck out. Then I saw this news story pop up…
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 25, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery Alliance for Natural Health USA antineoplastons Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2014 Gonzalez protocol health freedom HR 4475 Morgan Griffith Po Source Type: blogs
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: a review
This is a web version of a review of Peter Gotzsche’s book. It appeared in the April 2014 Healthwatch Newsletter. Read the whole newsletter. It has lots of good stuff. Their newsletters are here. Healthwatch has been exposing quackery since 1989. Their very first newsletter is still relevant.
Most new drugs and vaccines are developed by the pharmaceutical industry. The industry has produced huge benefits for mankind. But since the Thatcherite era it has come to be dominated by marketing people who appear to lack any conscience. That’s what gave rise to the Alltrials movement. It was founded in January 2013...
Source: DC's goodscience - April 16, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia badscience Big Pharma blogosphere Martin Keller Peter Gotzsche Pharmaceutical Industry Richard Eastell Source Type: blogs
Remote, quantally channelled kinetic agitation
There are several scientists acting like the proverbial sharp stick, constantly poking the balloons of alternative remedy quacks until they burst. They assess the latest nonsensical claims of so-called complementary medicine and then give it a good poke with the sharp end. I do wonder if they ever manage to guilt-trip their targets into giving up their often ludicrous claims of panaceas based on infinitely dilute solutions, candles, stones, touchless massage etc. Of course, if one patient avoids being conned and seeks professional medical help in their time of need rather than turning to quackery and deferring treatments t...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 22, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares
Conclusions about bibliometrics
Bibliometricians spend much time correlating one surrogate outcome with another, from which they learn little. What they don’t do is take the time to examine individual papers. Doing that makes it obvious that most metrics, and especially altmetrics, are indeed an ill-conceived and meretricious idea. Universities should know better than to subscribe to them.
Although altmetrics may be the silliest bibliometric idea yet, much this criticism applies equally to all such metrics. Even the most plausible metric, counting citations, is easily shown to be nonsense by simply...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 16, 2014 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia altmetrics bibliometrics open access peer review Public relations publishing acupuncture badscience bibliobollocks publication regulation Source Type: blogs
Pain-Topics News/Research UPDATES: Another Book About Pain; Only Much Better
Of nearly 240 million adults in the United States, more than 4 in 10, or about 100 million, live with chronic pain of some sort. Yet, the professional and popular news media focus more on abuses of pain medications than the dreaded conditions the drugs are intended to treat. Meanwhile, the suffering of untreated or mistreated patients with pain is largely overlooked.
In her new book — A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Biggest Health Problem — author Judy Foreman provides a deeply researched account of today's chronic pain crisis and reasons behind it, and she discusses some solutions that could be within reach. Far mo...
Source: Psychology of Pain - January 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Cancer and Complementary, Integrative, and Alternative Medicine: What You Need to Know
It’s essential to find reliable, science-based research to inform your choices of supplements and lifestyle changes to support your conventional cancer treatment.Contributor: Nichol MattsonPublished: Dec 16, 2013
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - December 16, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Stress Reduction Through Meditation May Slow the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease
This study was supported by the Harvard Medical School Osher Research Center, the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) K24 AT004095. In addition, this work was conducted with support from Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health Award 8UL1TR000170-05 and financial contributions from Harvard University and its affiliated academic health care centers). Beth Israel De...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 18, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
