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A district attorney embarrasses himself spewing antivaccine nonsense
Last night was one of those nights where I was working late because I was asked to do a panel discussion on breast cancer last night. Such are the perils of being a breast cancer expert, I guess. That doesn’t mean I don’t have time for an uncharacteristically brief notice of some particularly dumb bit…
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 1, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Movies Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Andrew Wakefield Brexar County Del Bigtree district attorney Nico LaHood Polly Tommey San Antonio v Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 29th 2016
This study demonstrates that TNTs play a significant part in the intercellular transfer of α-synuclein fibrils and reveals the specific role of lysosomes in this process. This represents a major breakthrough in understanding the mechanisms underlying the progression of synucleinopathies. These compelling findings, together with previous reports from the same team, point to the general role of TNTs in the propagation of prion-like proteins in neurodegenerative diseases and identify TNTs as a new therapeutic target to combat the progression of these incurable diseases. Shorter Period of Rapamycin Treatment in Mice...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 28, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Did the experimental cancer drug 3-Bromopyruvate (3-BP) cause the deaths of cancer patients at a German alternative medicine clinic?
I’ve frequently written about various dubious and outright quack clinics in different parts of the word with—shall we say?—somewhat less rigorous laws and regulations than the US. Most commonly, given the proximity to the US, the clinics that have drawn my attention are located in Mexico, most commonly right across the border from San Diego…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 22, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Popular culture Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking 3-BP 3-bromopyruvate 3BP alternative cancer clinic alternative cancer cure Biological Cancer Center dichloroacetate Evangelos Michelakis Farr Source Type: blogs

Food the Forgotten Medicine: More bait and switch from the “ College of Medicine ”
‘We know little about the effect of diet on health. That’s why so much is written about it’. That is the title of a post in which I advocate the view put by John Ioannidis that remarkably little is known about the health effects if individual nutrients. That ignorance has given rise to a vast industry selling advice that has little evidence to support it. The 2016 Conference of the so-called "College of Medicine" had the title "Food, the Forgotten Medicine". This post gives some background information about some of the speakers at this event. Quite a lot has been written here about the ...
Source: DC's goodscience - August 21, 2016 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: anti-oxidant Anti-science antioxidant antiscience Bait and switch CAM causality College of Medicine Continuing med education corruption Cyril Chantler Foundation for Integrated Health fraud Graeme Catto herbal medicine Michae Source Type: blogs

Combatting the alt-med stereotype of oncologists anxious to administer toxic chemotherapy
It is an article of faith among believers in alternative cancer cures that conventional oncology consists mainly of a bunch of money-hungry surgeons and oncologists who want nothing more than to cut, poison, and burn patients with cancer and charge them enormous sums of money to do so for as long as they can until…
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 4, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking adjuvant chemotherapy MammaPrint MINDACT OncoType DX surgery Source Type: blogs

Another cancer quack dies…of cancer.
As a cancer surgeon and physician, I can’t stand Ty Bollinger. I’m sure that comes as a surprise to absolutely none of my regular readers, given what a massive cancer quack he is. Most recently, he has become known for a series of deeply dishonest videos about cancer, chemotherapy, and alternative treatments for cancer called…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 15, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Bill Henderson Budwig protocol non-Hodgkins lymphoma The Truth About Cancer Ty Bollinger Source Type: blogs

Another cancer quack dies … of cancer.
As a cancer surgeon and physician, I can’t stand Ty Bollinger. I’m sure that comes as a surprise to absolutely none of my regular readers, given what a massive cancer quack he is. Most recently, he has become known for a series of deeply dishonest videos about cancer, chemotherapy, and alternative treatments for cancer called…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 15, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Bill Henderson Budwig protocol non-Hodgkins lymphoma The Truth About Cancer Ty Bollinger Source Type: blogs

Habits and Practices in Your 20s
Your 20s are a powerful decade of your life. During this time you sculpt many of the habits and practices you’ll probably maintain throughout your 30s, 40s, and beyond. However, many 20-somethings don’t give much thought to how their decisions and actions during this decade will ultimately create their future identity. They expect they’ll be able to make changes later, but that assumption usually turns out to be wrong. Career During your 20s you may think of your career path as having many options. You believe you could do many different types of work. That’s technically true. Later in life, however...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Source Type: blogs

Quackery expands in the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children ’ s Hospital of Philadelphia
I’ve been writing about this topic so long—ever since the very beginning of this blog—that it seems as though I’ve always been doing it even though this blog has been in existence only 11 years and I didn’t really come to appreciate the problem until after I had started this blog. No, I’m not referring…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 28, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Dana Farber Cancer Institute integrative memory Paul Offit pseudoscience quackademia quackademic medicine reflex Source Type: blogs

Quackery expands in the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
I’ve been writing about this topic so long—ever since the very beginning of this blog—that it seems as though I’ve always been doing it even though this blog has been in existence only 11 years and I didn’t really come to appreciate the problem until after I had started this blog. No, I’m not referring…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 28, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Dana Farber Cancer Institute integrative memory Paul Offit pseudoscience quackademia quackademic medicine reflex Source Type: blogs

Intellectual Suicide
Physician suicide is an enormous problem. We lose approximately 400 doctors and trainees annually to suicide. This is a tragedy, pure and simple. Not limited to the human carnage of the equivalent of an entire medical school class or more, but, to quote Dr. Pamela Wible, “Each year more than one million Americans lose their doctors to suicide.” What does it mean, then, when physicians who are trained in medicine — defined as the application of scientific principles to the diagnosis and treatment of human ills — turn away from reality to accept the magical thinking of pseudoscience? I submit that it...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - June 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs

Does A ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Formulary Policy Make Sense?
Over the last decade, insurers have increasingly used step therapy, or “fail-first,” policies as a strategy to contain pharmaceutical costs. Step therapy requires patients to begin treatment for a medical condition on a typically less expensive drug, and only progress to more costly second-line drugs when the first-line therapy becomes ineffective or inappropriate. Step therapy shifts clinical decision-making away from physicians and toward centralized policies that define treatment steps for patient populations based on the potential for more cost-effective care. The rapid growth in the use of step therapy policies in...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 2, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Adrienne Chung, Joanna MacEwan and Dana Goldman Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Equity and Disparities Health Policy Lab Health Professionals Insurance and Coverage Payment Policy Quality Prescription Drugs step therapy Source Type: blogs

False “balance” about Stanislaw Burzynski’s cancer quackery rears its ugly head again
One common theme that has been revisited time and time again on this blog since its very founding is the problem of how science and medicine are reported. For example, back when I first started blogging, one thing that used to drive me absolutely bonkers was the tendency of the press to include in any…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 2, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking antineoplastons diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma DIPG fda Neil Fachon Stanislaw Burzynski Wendy Fachon Source Type: blogs

The quackery that is “naturopathic oncology”
With a bill to license naturopaths (HB 4531) wending its way through the Michigan legislature supported by supplement manufacturers, its current status being in consideration by the full House of Representatives, periodically I feel the need to provide ammunition to the bill’s opponents, because we need to protect the patients in the state of Michigan…
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 1, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking FABNO HB 4531 Michigan naturopathic oncology society for integrative oncology Source Type: blogs