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Harvard Health Ad Watch: When marketing puts your health at risk
The goal of advertising is, of course, to catch your attention and sell you a product. But when it comes to health-related products, inaccuracies in advertising can be detrimental to your health.
Perhaps you’ve seen a Vitamin Water ad recently that touts the health benefits of Vitamin Water while seeming to discourage getting a flu shot as out of fashion. It originally appeared in 2011 but has mysteriously resurfaced online. The text of the ad states, “Flu shots are so last year,” and subheadings add “more vitamin C, more immunity, less snotty tissues.” The average customer seeing this ad could conclude that flu ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Complementary and alternative medicine Health Vaccines Vitamins and supplements Source Type: blogs
Preventing and treating colds: The evidence and the anecdotes
Oh, who doesn’t hate colds. You’re miserable, achy, tired, congested, and coughing. You may need to miss work, or go to the doctor. But it seems that no one really feels sorry for the person with a cold because colds are so common. “It’s just a virus, it’ll get better on its own,” says your doctor. “There’s no cure.”
Well, colds cost the U.S. an estimated 40 billion dollars per year considering lost financial productivity, plus spending on medical care, pharmaceuticals, and supplements (and that estimate is from 2003)!1 It’s just a virus? There’s got to be more we can do to effectively prevent and tre...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Cold and Flu Health Prevention cold prevention Source Type: blogs
CAM and low flu vaccine uptake: Fitting together hand in glove
There’s a class of studies that I sometimes refer to as “Well, duh!” studies because their conclusions are so mind-numbingly obvious that one wonders why anyone did the study in the first place. Sometimes that name is meant sarcastically, as in, “Why did these investigators waste the time, effort, and resources to do this study?…
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 5, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery CAM influenza integrative medicine 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
Antivaccine cranks ask: Did the flu vaccine kill Prince?
I heard the news yesterday morning. I was in clinic seeing patients. It was a bit of a slow morning; there was time between patients. So I spent it, as is my wont when clinic is a bit slow, signing charts (OK, signing off on charts in the electronic medical record; I haven’t actually physically…
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 22, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Music Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Alex Jones antivaccine celebrity death chemtrail flu chemtrails influenza Mike Adams Paisley Park Prince Prince Source Type: blogs
Another child dead from quackery: The parents say they’re being persecuted in a plot to impose forced vaccination
A couple of days ago, I wrote about a story of a sort that I’ve had to write about far too many times over the last eleven years. I wrote about the death of a child—but not just any death of a child, the death of a child who could have—should have—lived. The child’s name…
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 11, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Collet Stephan David Stephan Ezekiel Stephan haemophilus influenza type b Hib naturopath Source Type: blogs
No, DDT won’t save us from the Zika virus
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last decade-plus of blogging about medicine and alternative medicine, it’s that any time there is an outbreak or pandemic of infectious disease, there will inevitably follow major conspiracy theories about it. It happened during the H1N1 pandemic in the 2009-2010 influenza season, the Ebola outbreak in late…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 22, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Biology Medicine Politics Popular culture Source Type: blogs
Dr. Lipson versus Dr. Brownstein: Science versus antivaccine misinformation and fear mongering in my own back yard
It always irritates me when I discover a new antivaccine crank in my state; so you can imagine how irritated I become when I discover one right in my very city (OK, metropolitan area). When that happens, it becomes a bit more personal than my usual mission to refute antivaccine misinformation. So I was most…
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 4, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking antivaccine Center for Holistic Medicine David Brownstein detoxification Forbes formaldehyde heavy metal toxicity influenza Peter Lips Source Type: blogs
The Triumph of New Age Medicine, part deux, courtesy of The Atlantic
There can be no doubt that, when it comes to medicine, The Atlantic has an enormous blind spot. Under the guise of being seemingly “skeptical,” the magazine has, over the last few years, published some truly atrocious articles about medicine. I first noticed this during the H1N1 pandemic, when The Atlantic published an article lionizing…
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 6, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking integrative medicine Jennie Rothenberg Gritz National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine National Center for Complemen Source Type: blogs
Prince Charles’ letters confirm that he’s not fit to be king
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This post was written for the Spectator Health section, at short notice after the release of the spider letters. The following version is almost the same as appeared there, with a few updates. Some of the later sections are self-plagiarised from earlier posts.
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The age of enlightenment was a beautiful thing. People cast aside dogma and authority. They started to think for themselves. Natural science flourished. Understanding of the natural world increased. The hegemony of religion slowly declined. Eventually real universities were created and real democracy developed. The modern world wa...
Source: DC's goodscience - May 15, 2015 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Duchy Originals Foundation for Integrated Health Freedom of Information Act Prince Charles Prince of Wales Prince's Foundation Anti-science antiscience badscience CAM herbal medicine herbalism homeopathy politics quackery Que Source Type: blogs
Prince Charles ’ letters confirm that he ’ s not fit to be king
Jump to follow-up
This post was written for the Spectator Health section, at short notice after the release of the spider letters. The following version is almost the same as appeared there, with a few updates. Some of the later sections are self-plagiarised from earlier posts.
Picture: Getty
The age of enlightenment was a beautiful thing. People cast aside dogma and authority. They started to think for themselves. Natural science flourished. Understanding of the natural world increased. The hegemony of religion slowly declined. Eventually real universities were created and real democracy developed. The modern world wa...
Source: DC's goodscience - May 15, 2015 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Duchy Originals Foundation for Integrated Health Freedom of Information Act Prince Charles Prince of Wales Prince's Foundation Anti-science antiscience badscience CAM herbal medicine herbalism homeopathy politics quackery Que Source Type: blogs
After five years, Bill Maher lets his antivaccine freak flag fly again
A couple of weeks ago, I noted the return of the antivaccine wingnut side of Bill Maher, after a (relative) absence of several years, dating back, most likely, to the thorough spanking he endured for spouting off his antivaccine pseudoscience during the H1N1 pandemic. This well-deserved mockery included Bob Costas taunting him on his own…
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 9, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Television Amy Holmes Bill Maher GMO John McCormack Marianne Williamson Monsanto Real Time With Bill Maher Source Type: blogs
No, the CDC did not just apologize and admit that this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t work, part 2
It looks like this year’s going to be a bad flu season. Hard as it is for me to believe, it was only five weeks ago when I discussed an announcement by the CDC that this year’s flu vaccine would likely be less effective because it isn’t a good match for the influenza strains in…
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 16, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Biology Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Science CDC influenza Source Type: blogs
Mike Adams defends Dr. Oz. As usual, hilarity ensues.
After I woke up this morning, the haze induced by feasting and hanging out with family only slowly clearing, I debated about whether I wanted to post anything at all today. After all, in much of the English-speaking world, it’s still a holiday, Boxing Day. Although not an official holiday here in the US, when…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 26, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Television evidence-based medicine influenza vaccine Mehmet Oz Mike Adams quackery The Doctors The Dr. Oz Show Source Type: blogs
