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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery

Autism and Scientology?

Is there a connection between Scientology and the mercury militia? Kevin Leitch examines the evidence. As he points out, it’s not as far-fetched as it might seem at first: Everybody knows that Scientology has an almost rabid outlook on psychiatry and what they deem psychiatric labels. Its so bad that Xenu-lover John Travolta is allegedly […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

The complaint against Dr. Roy Kerry, negligent killer of Abubakar Tariq Nadama

After not having written anything about the case of Abubakar Tariq Nadama, the five year old autistic boy who died as a result of chelation therapy administered to him to “cure” him of his autism, I revisited the case last week in light of the State of Pennsylvania filing charges against Dr. Kerry, the “alternative […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Activate your DNA!

There are times when the struggle to keep cranking out Your Friday Dose of Woo every week starts to get to me. No, it’s not because I don’t enjoy putting together these little light-hearted but pointed analyses of some of the strangest woo that I’ve come across. Believe me, many times it’s the highlight of […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

A little too much credulity from a Chicago Tribune reporter towards alternative medicine

I had been planning on finally getting around to writing that review of Richard Dawkins‘ The God Delusion that I’ve been meaning to write since I finally finished the book two weeks ago. Then a Google Alert hit my mailbox last night for a preset search that I keep active on “Abraham Cherrix,” and the […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Justice for Abubakar Tariq Nadama at last?

A little more than a year ago, an autistic boy named Abubakar Tariq Nadama died of a cardiac arrest due to hypocalcemia at the hands of an “alternative medicine” practitioner named Dr. Roy Kerry while chelation therapy was being administered to him intravenously. Dr. Kerry, who trained as an ENT doctor, now bills himself as […]