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Yet another woman with breast cancer lured into quackery by Ty Bollinger and “holistic” medicine advocates
To say that I, as a cancer surgeon, am not a fan of Ty Bollinger is a massive understatement. He’s not exactly one of my fans, either, but I view the hatred of a man like Bollinger directed at me as a badge of honor. Indeed, if a man like Bollinger didn’t detest me, I…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 27, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking breast cancer Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Clinic coffee enemas functional medicine supplements testimonial Source Type: blogs
Quack attack: Naturopaths and supplement companies press for naturopathic licensure in Michigan
Over the years, I’ve taken care of women with locally advanced breast cancer so advanced that it’s eroded through the skin, forming huge, nasty ulcers filled with stinky dead cancer tissue that’s outgrown its blood supply, leaving the patient in chronic pain. If the patient is fortunate, her cancer has not metastasized beyond her axillary…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 23, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Andy Schor antivaccine Brandon Dillon detoxification Doug Cutler George Darany HB 4531 homeopathy House Bill 4531 House of R Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 23rd 2016
FIGHT AGING! NEWSLETTER
May 23rd 2016
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to onl...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 22, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Naturopaths and supplement manufacturers: In bed together to promote naturopathic licensure
After yesterday’s epic mid-week rant about a man who thinks he knows what skepticism is but clearly doesn’t, it’s time to get back to business. The best way to do that is to go back to an article that came out the other day and that I had meant to blog about but temporarily shelved…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 19, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Politics Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Amy Rothenberg licensing Source Type: blogs
John Horgan is “skeptical of skeptics,” or: Homeopathy and bigfoot versus cancer and the quest for world peace
Contrary to what some of my detractors think, I don’t mind criticism of my viewpoints. After all, if I never encounter criticism, how will I ever improve? On the other hand, there are forms of criticism that are what I would call less than constructive. One form this sort of criticism takes is obsessive repetition…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 18, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Paranormal Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking John Horgan mammography NECSS Scientific American war Source Type: blogs
CAM use, but not all CAM use, is correlated with skipping chemotherapy
So-called “alternative” medicine is made up of a hodge-podge of health care practices and treatments based on beliefs that are unscientific, pre-scientific, and pseudoscientific. These modalities include practices as diverse as homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, reflexology, reiki and other forms of “energy medicine” based on vitalism, chiropractic, and naturopathy, and that’s a short list of…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 17, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery botanicals breast cancer CAM Heather Greenlee herbal medicine integrative medicine supplements Source Type: blogs
An Interview with the Advocates of the Major Mouse Testing Program Team
By way of following on from today's AMA over at /r/futurology, I recently had the chance to ask a few questions of the Major Mouse Testing Program (MMTP) volunteers, a mix of scientists and advocates who aim to do their part to speed up progress towards effective treatments for the causes of aging. The group formed six months ago or so, and are presently seeking funds for their first mouse studies through crowdfunding with the Lifespan.io organization. The initial focus is on senolytic treatments capable of removing senescent cells from old tissues. I encourage you all to take a look at the details of their research propos...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 16, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Do medical errors really kill a quarter of a million people a year in the US?
It is an unquestioned belief among believers in alternative medicine and even just among many people who do not trust conventional medicine that conventional medicine kills. Not only does exaggerating the number of people who die due to medical complications or errors fit in with the world view of people like Mike Adams and Joe…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 16, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking causes of death medical error Source Type: blogs
John Oliver teaches us how to interpret medical and scientific studies
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of John Oliver. When my aging body allows me to stay awake late enough on Sunday nights and there’s a new episode on, I’ll almost always be watching. Since starting his own show Last Week Tonight With John Oliver on HBO, Oliver’s become quite the expert at…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 10, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Biology Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Autism John Oliver pseudoscience TED Talks This Week Tonight vaccines Source Type: blogs
Wheatgrass quack Brian Clement returns to the scene of the crime in Six Nations
Many are the cancer quacks—and just plain quacks—whom I have discussed over the years. Some of them, like Robert O. Young, have been truly horrendous, so bad that I’m left shaking my head and wondering how anyone can fall for their obvious misinformation and outright lies. For instance, Robert O Young claims that all cancer—not…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 6, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Brian Clement Hippocrates Health Institute Six Nations wheatgrass Source Type: blogs
Sayer Ji: Willfully misunderstanding overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis since…forever
If there’s one lesson that I like to emphasize while laying down my near-daily dose of Insolence, both Respectful and not-so-Respectful, it’s that practicing medicine and surgery is complicated. Part of the reason that it’s complicated is that for many diseases our understanding is incomplete, meaning that physicians have to apply existing science to their…
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 2, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking lobectomy misdiagnosis overdiagnosis Sayer Ji screening thyroid cancer thyroidectomy Yuri E. Nikiforov Source Type: blogs
Cassandra Callender, the teen who refused chemotherapy, has relapsed
I hate these stories, because they so seldom end well. Unfortunately, this one is more messy than even the usual messiness of the typical story of this type. The type of story I’m referring to, of course, is one that I’ve told from time to time ever since near the first year of this blog’s…
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 28, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Cassandra Callender chemotherapy Hodgkin's lymphoma Ty Bollinger Source Type: blogs
Why the Documentary Vaxxed is so Controversial and Important to Support
Recently Dr. Andrew Wakefield directed the documentary Vaxxed to educate the public about autism in general, and more specifically to address the coverup of the 2004 research connecting the MMR vaccine to autism. Gastroenterologist Wakefield has become a champion for the autism community, which stands behind Wakefield’s dedication and work to help the growing numbers of children suffering from autism. Dr. Wakefield’s work has focused on alleviating the gastrointestinal distress often accompanying patients of autism. [1]
The movie Vaxxed is controversial because the coverup of the MMR vaccine connection to autism has fa...
Source: vactruth.com - April 27, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Recent Articles Top Stories Dr. Andrew Wakefield Dr. William Thompson Robert DeNiro Tribeca Film Festival truth about vaccines Vaxxed Source Type: blogs
Yet again, acupuncture does not work for menopausal hot flashes
Arguably, one of the most popular forms of so-called “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) being “integrated” with real medicine by those who label their specialty “integrative medicine” is acupuncture. It’s particularly popular in academic medical centers as a subject of what I like to refer to as “quackademic medicine“; that is, the study of pseudoscience…
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 25, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery acupuncture breast cancer hot flashes menopause quackademic medicine Source Type: blogs
Another young woman with cancer, lured into quackery by Ty Bollinger
It sucks to be diagnosed with cancer at any age, but it especially sucks to be young and diagnosed with cancer. The prompt application of science-based cancer treatment is important for anyone with cancer, but it’s especially important for young people with cancer, because they have the most life-years to lose if they dawdle or…
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 19, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Carissa Gleeson chemotherapy infrared sauna ozone therapy surgery synovial cell sarcoma Ty Bollinger Source Type: blogs
