At this stage of the game, I almost feel sorry for David Kirby. Think about it. He’s made his name and what little fame he has (which isn’t much outside of the tinhat crowd that thinks the guv’mint is intentionally poisoning their children with vaccines to make them all autistic) almost entirely on the basis […]
Category: Complementary and alternative medicine
…Orac might be in trouble: (Click for the full comic.) I wonder if I should hire a guard. Actually, I think reading Respectful Insolence™ might do Jenny McCarthy some good, especially this post (or maybe this post, too). Unfortunately, she’s too deluded and arrogant to realize how scientifically ignorant she is; so it would probably […]
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I know I like to say that woo is eternal, and it is. That doesn’t, however, mean that individual examples of woo are necessarily eternal. Some, it seems, are. Does anyone doubt, for example, that homeopathy, which has been around for over two hundred years now, will still be around 200 years from now? I’d […]
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…and his name is Edzard Ernst. And here’s the reason why. Anyone who can rile up homeopaths that much is my kind of guy.
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I’m a cancer surgeon, and if there’s one thing that drives me straight to the liquor cabinet it has to be quack cancer “cures.” Very early in the history of this blog, I discussed one of the biggest quacks of all time, a woman who thinks that all cancer is caused by a liver fluke […]
