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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Politics Quackery

A chiropractor for President?

Apparently there’s a chiropracter named Billy Sticker running for President. His platform: My platform: To increase your patient count by 200% during my first term To increase your income by 200% Pass legislation designating Chiropractic the Official Health Care of America Reduce our dependency on pharmaceuticals (because Chiropractic would be the official health care!) He even has his own video […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Chiropractors as physical therapists with delusions of grandeur

In the past, I’ve characterized chiropractors, at least the ones who claim to be able to treat anything other than back pain, as “physical therapists with delusions of grandeur who don’t know their limitations.” It appears that Panda Bear, MD agrees with me, and he’s particularly disturbed about such chiropractors increasingly targeting the pediatric population: […]

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Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment can kill

On Friday, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber exploded, killing a five-year-old child being treated at an “integrative” clinic. Quackery kills.

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Medicine Politics Quackery

The NCCIH embraces the “integration” of functional medicine quackery with medicine

The process of “integrating” quackery with medicine continues apace as the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health embraces the quackery that is “functional medicine” to promote “whole person health,” whatever that means.

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Cancer Popular culture Surgery

Not exactly “sensible medicine” for Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer

Adam Cifu and Vinay Prasad at Sensible Medicine defend Elle Macpherson’s decision not to undergo chemotherpay for her breast cancer. Too bad they shortchange the quackery in doing so.