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Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Quackery Television

Dr. House on vaccinations

If you think I’m hardcore when it comes to my disgust at antivaccination advocates like Dawn Winkler, you should check out House, M.D.: [House walks away. Cut to the clinic and House is in an exam room with a young mother and her baby.] Young Mother: No formula, just mommy’s healthy natural breast milk. House: […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The “pharma shill” gambit

It was a late night in the O.R. last night; so I didn’t get to spend my usual quality blogging time. However, it occurred to me. In honor of being called a “pharma moron” on Whale.to, coupled with all the antivaccination lunacy that’s been infesting the comments of this blog, only to be tirelessly countered […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine

And the accolades just keep rolling in…

First, it was HIV/AIDS “skeptic” Celia Farber referring to me as “low rent riff-raff.” I was so honored by that particular accolade that I had a smile on my face the rest of the day after I discovered it. Fortunately for me, that’s not the end of the accolades.

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Medicine Politics

The Tripoli Six: The blogosphere keeps up the pressure

I wrote last week about the Tripoli Six, six health care workers who were jailed by Libya on trumped up charges of infecting patients at a hospital they worked at with HIV. Since then, many other have chimed in, and the most recent count of blog posts about this case is well over 100. According […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Alternative medicine and breast cancer

After the three posts that I recently did about vaccination have garnered well over 250 comments between the three of them (and still counting), I thought it might be time to switch topics. As important as they are, I don’t want this blog to become all vaccines all the time. (After all, look what happened […]