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“ Dr. ” Raphael Nyarkotey Obu: Another example showing quackery ’ s the same all over the world
Orac has Google Alerts set up for various subjects, such as alternative medicine. This time around, it was a Google Alert that introduced him to "Dr." Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, who shows how quackery is the same all over the world, including in Ghana.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - June 4, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery African traditional medicine featured Ghana Nyarkotey College of Holistic Medicine Nyarkotey Obu prostate cancer Raphael Nyarkotey Obu Source Type: blogs
Helen Lawson and black salve: Cutting, burning, and poisoning “ naturally ”
Cancer quacks frequently characterize conventional treatments for cancer as "cutting, poisoning, and burning." Yet, in Australia a woman with ovarian cancer chose black salve, in essence, "cutting, poisoning, and burning" (but mostly burning and without the cutting) to treat her disease. She died a horrible death. How can black salve still be a thing.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - May 24, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking alternative cancer cure testimonial Belinda Davies black salve bloodroot Cansema Dennis Wayne Jensen escharotic featured Karen Lawson ovarian cancer Stanisla Source Type: blogs
Orac basks in the adoration of Gary Null (revised and greatly expanded)
Orac loves to bask in the adulation of his "fans." This time around, one of the old men of quackery, Gary Null, has decided that he really, really doesn't like science-based medicine. Orac was sufficiently amused to revise, update, and expand his previous post providing Null with some not-so-Respectful Insolence.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - May 21, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Cancer Homeopathy Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking featured Gary Null pharmacognosy pharmacology Progressive Radio Network skeptics Tom Jefferson vaccines Source Type: blogs
How is it that in 2018 cancer Stanislaw Burzynski is still preying on desperate cancer patients? (Update)
Earlier this week, I wrote about the tragic story of Demi Knight, and 11-year-old girl in the UK with medulloblastoma with only a few months to live. I wondered how cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski could still be taking advantage of such patients in 2018. Here, I note the role of the press.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - May 3, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery antineoplastons Demi Knight featured Stanislaw Burzynski Source Type: blogs
How is it that in 2018 cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski is still preying on desperate cancer patients?
In the 1970s, young polish expat and cancer researcher Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski thought he had found a cure for many incurable cancers. He dubbed it antineoplastons (ANPs_. Unfortunately, he left the path of science and started treating patients before he had evidence that ANPs work. Four decades later, without ever having published compelling evidence for anticancer efficacy of ANPs, he's still luring desperate patients to his clinic. Now he's set to branch out to quack clinics in Mexico. Why can't the law stop him?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - May 1, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking antineoplastons Burzynski Clinic CHIPSA Hospital Demi Knight Eric Merola featured Gerson protocol medulloblastoma Stanislaw Burzynski Source Type: blogs
How is it that in 2018 cancer Stanislaw Burzynski is still preying on desperate cancer patients?
In the 1970s, young polish expat and cancer researcher Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski thought he had found a cure for many incurable cancers. He dubbed it antineoplastons (ANPs_. Unfortunately, he left the path of science and started treating patients before he had evidence that ANPs work. Four decades later, without ever having published compelling evidence for anticancer efficacy of ANPs, he's still luring desperate patients to his clinic. Now he's set to branch out to quack clinics in Mexico. Why can't the law stop him?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - May 1, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking antineoplastons Burzynski Clinic CHIPSA Hospital Demi Knight Eric Merola featured Gerson protocol medulloblastoma Stanislaw Burzynski Source Type: blogs
The quackademic avalanche: Is it too late for the pebbles to vote?
I’ve documented the infiltration of quackery into academic medicine through the “integration” of mystical and prescientific treatment modalities into medicine. Here, I look at a seemingly small incident, a veritable pebble in the quackademic avalanche. Is it too late for the pebbles to vote?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - April 16, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Bad science Cancer Medicine Naturopathy Quackery Cedars-Sinai complementary and alternative medicine featured integrative medicine quackademic medicine Source Type: blogs
The dubious cancer “ virotherapy ” Rigvir returns with an equally dubious case report
Rigvir is a "virotherapy" from Latvia promoted by the International Virotherapy Center and, increasingly, by alternative cancer clinics. There is no convincing scientific evidence for its efficacy. That didn't stop its advocates from presenting a case report. Not surprisingly, the case report isn't convincing either.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - April 11, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery case report featured International Virotherapy Center Rigvir Source Type: blogs
Conspiratorial ear mongering about cell phones and cancer, courtesy of The Nation
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that it is incredibly unlikely that cell phone radiation causes cancer or other health problems. That doesn't stop The Nation from constructing a conspiracy theory inn which cell phone companies are likened to tobacco companies in their campaign of denial designed to hide evidence of harm while disingenuously claiming to be neutral regarding the science and saying that scientists should determine whether radiation from cell phones is hazardous.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - April 9, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Bad science Biology Cancer Medicine cell phones featured George Carlo International Agency for Research on Cancer Lennart Hardell Mark Dowie Mark Hertsgaard National Toxicology Program The Nation Source Type: blogs
Conspiratorial fear mongering about cell phones and cancer, courtesy of The Nation
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that it is incredibly unlikely that cell phone radiation causes cancer or other health problems. That doesn't stop The Nation from constructing a conspiracy theory inn which cell phone companies are likened to tobacco companies in their campaign of denial designed to hide evidence of harm while disingenuously claiming to be neutral regarding the science and saying that scientists should determine whether radiation from cell phones is hazardous.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - April 9, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Bad science Biology Cancer Medicine cell phones featured George Carlo International Agency for Research on Cancer Lennart Hardell Mark Dowie Mark Hertsgaard National Toxicology Program The Nation Source Type: blogs
The “ interstitium ” : Interesting science versus PR spin and pseudoscience
Last week, the media were awash with reports of the "interstitium," which was dramatically described as a hitherto undiscovered "organ," a narrative that was definitely a triumph of PR over science that went beyond what even the investigators claimed in their paper. Worse, the investigators themselves even speculated that their discovery could "explain" acupuncture and other kinds of alternative medicine, thus providing an opening for quacks to run wild with their discovery, something I expect to see very soon.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - April 3, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Biology Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Integrative medicine Science acupressure acupuncture collagen complementary and alternative mediciner featured interstitium lymphatic system Neil Theise quackery Rebecca Wel Source Type: blogs
The deadly false hope of German alternative cancer clinics, part 3: Hallwang Clinic revisited
I've written twice before about German alternative medicine cancer clinics, the quackery they ply, and how they take advantage of desperate cancer patients. Finally, in a disturbing report a journalist has investigated what one of these clinics (Hallwang) does and how such clinics can continue to operate.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - April 2, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Quackery alternative medicine Farrah Fawcett featured Hallwang Clinic Hallwang Private Oncology Clinic Source Type: blogs
A bad week for homeopathy is a good week for science
It's been a bad week for homeopathy. First, the NHS in the UK has stopped funding homeopathy in London. Then, news stories appeared about research fraud and a retracted clinical trial of homeopathy for cancer in which the investigators had already been arrested. So sad!
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 14, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Aradeep Chatterjee Ashim Chatterjee Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine featured Prince Charles Royal London Homeopathi Source Type: blogs
True believers and scammers in alternative medicine
In the online echo chamber promoting alternative medicine, there are varying degrees of deception. There are true believers (who are often victims), entrepreneurs (who are often true believers who found a profitable business), and scammers. The categories are not mutually exclusive.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - February 26, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery alkaline diet alternative cancer cure testimonial alternative cancer cures belle gibson Brittany Auerbach faith healing featured Mari Lopez Mike Adams scams veganism Source Type: blogs
Quackademic medicine versus being “ science-based ”
A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by the a reporter from the Georgetown student newsletter about its integrative medicine program. It got me to thinking how delusion that one’s work is science-based can lead to collaborations with New Age “quantum” mystics like Deepak Chopra. "Integrative medicine" doctors engaging in what I like to refer to as quackademic medicine all claim to be "evidence-based" or "science-based." The words apparently do not mean what integrative medicine academics think they mean.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - February 19, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Bad science Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Integrative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery acupuncture Aviad Haramati Chopra Center Deepak Chopra featured Georgetown University Hakima Amri homeopathy Source Type: blogs
