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Abraham Cherrix: Still battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma five years later

When you’ve been at this blogging thing as long as I have, it’s possible to be shocked at how long you find yourself commenting on the same story. As I approach the end of the seventh year of Insolence, both Respectful and not-so-Respectful, I find these “senior blogging moments” popping up from time to time. […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Naturopathy Quackery

Surveying the “integrative medicine” landscape

Perhaps the biggest bête noire for me is the infiltration of quackademic medicine into academic medical centers; so whenever I see particularly egregious examples, it gets my fingers twitching over the keyboard, ready to lay down some not-so-Respectful Insolence. So it was last Friday when I happened across an article published nearly two years ago […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Orac’s mail bag: Quacks do better than medicine!

We get hate mail. Or I do. True, I don’t get an inordinate amount of hate mail, but I do get some. A lot of the time, it’s rather boring and predictable, which is why I don’t often respond to it on the blog, although sometimes against my better judgment I respond by e-mail. That […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Reiki: You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you can get what you need

Whenever I write about the woo that is reiki, I feel obligated to point out just what reiki is. Sure, it might be repetitive, but I hope my regular readers will indulge me. I never know when new readers will pop in, and it is necessary to do a bit of review. Basically, reiki is […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

A “disinformation campaign” against homeopathy?

Oh goody. Goody, goody, goody, goody, goody. As I sat down to lay down a bit of the old ultrainsolence on a hapless bit of psuedoscience, I was near despair. For whatever reason, there didn’t appear to be anything new out there for me to sink my teeth into. True, when this has happened in […]