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Once again, acupuncture doesn’t work for menopausal hot flashes
Of all the forms of quackery that have been “integrated” into medicine of late, arguably one of the most popular is acupuncture. It’s offered in fertility clinics. It’s offered in hospitals and medical clinics all over the place. The vast majority of academic medical centers that have embraced quackademic medicine offer acupuncture. (Quackademic medicine, for…
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 13, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture clinical trial hot flashes menopause quackademic medicine Source Type: blogs
Cancer patients do not need or want suggestions for alternative cancer cures
Over the last week or so, I’ve noticed (or had brought to my attention) a series of articles discussing a phenomenon related to alternative medicine that I don’t believe that I’ve addressed before, at least not directly anyway. I had filed some of these in my folder of topics for blogging, but somehow never got…
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 31, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery alternative cancer cures chemotherapy terminal illness Source Type: blogs
When alternative medicine cancer cures fail, it’s always the patient’s fault. Always.
After a trilogy of posts on the lamentably bad decision on the part of the Tribeca Film Festival to screen a pseudoscience- and misinformation-filled documentary by hero to the antivaccine movement, Andrew Wakefield, that is basically one long conspiracy theory, I thought it was time for a change. I had briefly toyed with the idea…
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 25, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Source Type: blogs
Once again, Facebook reporting algorithms facilitate harassment of pro-science advocates by antivaccine cranks
Nearly eleven years ago, back in April 2005, I opened my work e-mail (I was working at a different university back then) and saw an e-mail from someone whose name I had seen before, one Mr. William P. O’Neill. Opening the e-mail, I was shocked to find an e-mail to Orac; worse, the e-mail was…
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 10, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Computers Quackery Allison Hagood Canadian Cancer Research Group Dorit Rubinstein Facebook harassment Heather Ann Murray Peter Bowditch sexual harassment Skeptical Raptor Source Type: blogs
One more time: There’s no evidence Gardasil causes premature ovarian failure
Here we go again. When you’ve been blogging for over 11 years, particularly when what you blog about is skepticism and science-based medicine, with a special emphasis on taking down quackery (particularly cancer and antivaccine quackery), inevitably you see the same misinformation and lies pop up from time to time. Indeed, those of us in…
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 1, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking American College of Pediatrics Cervarix Gardasil hpv polysorbate 80 premature ovarian failure Source Type: blogs
Sh*t naturopaths say, part 4: Naturopathic oncology versus science
Last week, I revisited a topic I first discussed in 2014 a couple of times. It is a topic that I find simultaneously amusing and depressing at the same time, specifically a private discussion forum known as Naturopathic Chat, or NatChat for short—or, as I like to say, Sh*t Naturopaths Say When They Think No…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 29, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Source Type: blogs
No, cell phones are not “cooking men’s sperm”
I’ve written several times over the years about the overblown claims of harm attributed, largely—but not exclusively—by cranks, to cell phone radiation. It’s been claimed that radiation from cell phones can cause brain tumors (there’s no convincing evidence that this is true), breast cancer (the evidence for these claims is so incredibly flimsy—and featured by…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 24, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking cell phone infertility male factor infertility Martha Dirnfeld mobile phone radio waves sperm Technion Uni Source Type: blogs
Stanislaw Burzynski in NEWSWEEK: How long can his “unprecedented medical malfeasance” continue?
I didn’t think I’d be writing about Stanislaw Burzynski again so soon, but to my surprise a very good article in Newsweek describing cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski popped up in my Google Alerts yesterday. I hadn’t expected much in the way of news coverage about Burzynski for several months, given that the second half of…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 23, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Popular culture Quackery antineoplastons fda Stanislaw Burzynski Source Type: blogs
An alternative cancer cure testimonial, mistletoe, and Johns Hopkins University
Ever since the beginning of this blog, there’s one topic I’ve explored many, many times, mainly because of its direct relationship to my profession as a cancer surgeon. That topic is, of course, the question of why people fall for alternative medicine cancer “cures.” It started with one of my very earliest posts and continued…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 12, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking colon cancer johns hopkins university Jvelisse Page Luis Diaz mistletoe Paul Hinderberger Source Type: blogs
Long-Term Benefits of Senolytic Drugs on Vascular Health
This study, however, looked at the structural and functional impacts of cell clearance using a unique combination of drugs on blood vessels over time. Mice were 24 months old when the drugs - a cocktail of dasatinib and quercetin - were administered orally over a three-month period following those initial two years. A separate set of mice with high cholesterol was allowed to develop atherosclerotic plaques for 4 months and were then treated with the drug cocktail for two months.
The research showed that senescent cell clearance in either naturally-aged or atherosclerotic mice alleviated vascular dysfunction. Although it d...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 11, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A quack goes to prison, but it’s not enough
If there’s one thing that’s frustrating about the U.S. justice system, it’s just how slow the wheels of justice grind. For example, it’s hard to believe that it was over two years ago that “pH Miracle” quack Robert O. Young was arrested for fraud, grand theft, and practicing medicine without a license, producing one of…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 9, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Antoine Bechamps bacteria jury Robert O. Young virus Source Type: blogs
You stay away from Ziggy Stardust and Severus Snape, Mike Adams!
I’ve been a big fan of David Bowie ever since high school. True, I didn’t appreciate his less mainstream stuff as intensely as I do now until I had been in college a couple of years, but it’s not an inaccurate to characterize the effect of David Bowie’s art on my life as significant. Basically,…
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 19, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Movies Music Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Alan Rickman Beau Biden chemotherapy David Bowie Die Hard Elizabeth Edwards Farrah Fawcett Harry P Source Type: blogs
Makayla Sault’s mother: Racism, trust, and science-based medicine
One of the recurring topics I write about is, of course, cancer quackery. It goes right back to the very beginning of this blog, to my very earliest posts more than 11 years ago. Over the years I’ve covered more cases than I can remember of patients relying on quackery instead of real medicine. In…
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 18, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine History Politics Quackery Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking aborigine acute lymphoblastic leukemia Brian Clement Canada chemotherapy First Nations Justice Gethin Edward Source Type: blogs
More acupuncture Tooth Fairy science as 2015 approaches its end
Several years ago, Harriet Hall coined a term that is most apt: Tooth fairy science. The term refers to clinical trials and basic science performed on fantasy. More specifically, it refers to doing research on a phenomenon before it has been scientifically established that the phenomenon exists. Harriet put it this way: You could measure…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 29, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery acupressure acupuncture breast cancer pain quackademic medicine Source Type: blogs
What You Need to Know About Clinical Trials
People who are diagnosed with lung cancer may want to consider participating in clinical trials. These studies involve volunteering for a research study that tests detection methods, diagnosis methods, analysis methods, new drugs, alternative therapies or new devices to determine if these treatments work and are safe for use. These studies help researchers advance the pool of knowledge and available resources that eventually may benefit people...
Source: Dorian Martin's SharePosts - December 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dorian Martin Source Type: blogs
