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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Why didn’t I think of this before?

Damn. Every so often another blogger will think of something that I really, really wished I’d thought of before. Times like this, and this handy-dandy alternative medicine flow chart. I do think he missed one thing, though. Just because someone doesn’t like having stuff shoved up their posterior doesn’t mean they won’t be into “detox.” […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Medicine Quackery

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A homeopathic journal club

Every so often, real life intrudes on blogging, preventing the creation of fresh Insolence, at least Insolence of the quality that you’ve come to expect. This is one of those times. I happen to be sitting here in Palm Beach, Florida, but I’m not chilling at the beach or pool. Rather, I’m attending “leadership training.” […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery Religion

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Can somebody get me some frickin’ laser beams with my Reiki?

Every so often, real life intrudes on blogging, preventing the creation of fresh Insolence, at least Insolence of the quality that you’ve come to expect. This is one of those times. I happen to be sitting here in Palm Beach, Florida, but I’m not chilling at the beach or pool. Rather, I’m attending “leadership training.” […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

The Huffington Post promotes breast cancer quackery again

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a fact that is hard to escape. It’s one of those things that I have mixed feelings about, particularly now that I’ve had a close relative, namely my mother-in-law, die of breast cancer less than two years ago. On the one hand, the attention that’s brought to the cause […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Dr. Mark Hyman: Let’s turn back the clock on science-based medicine in favor of anecdote-based medicine

I sometimes think I ought to send a thank you letter to Dr. Mark Hyman. True, I don’t owe him quite as much as I owe, for example, Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com, anyone on the blogging crew of the anti-vaccine crank propaganda blog Age of Autism, Dr. Jay Gordon, or several other pseudoscientists, quacks, or […]