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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine News of the Weird Quackery

Images from New York, part 1: The unbearable lightness of fraud

Seen in a bookstore in the Delta terminal at LaGuardia: It makes perfect sense. What’s left after fleecing millions of gullible readers selling books about “alternative” medicine and secret cures “they” don’t want you to know about? Fleecing millions of gullible readers by selling books rife financial scams, of course. (I wonder how many pyramid […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Computers and social media Medicine Quackery

Wiki woo?

While I was away over the weekend, a reader made me aware of a new development in the world of “alternative”–excuse me, “complementary and alternative”–medicine (a.k.a. CAM). I suppose I should have seen this coming. In retrospect, given the proliferation of wikis of seemingly every shape and for seemingly every purpose, it was inevitable that […]

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Announcements Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine

One last reminder…

…that I and a bunch of other ScienceBloggers will be at the following location from 2-4 PM today: Details: 2pm-4pm on Saturday, August 9 Social 795 8th Ave (close to 49th St.) New York, NY 10019 A couple of warnings: Point one: I’m a lot more boring and unassuming in person than I am on […]

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Announcements

Fast approaching: The Skeptics’ Circle

It’s that time again. The longer I’m at this, the faster time seems to fly, but it’s already here again. Yes, the next meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle is scheduled to land at City of Skeptics in less than a week, on Thursday, August 14. If you’re a skeptical blogger, get cracking and submit your […]

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Personal Politics

So bad only he can change a lifelong political orientation

“If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. And if you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no head.” – Winston Churchill Like one of my blog buds, PalMD, I usually don’t discuss purely political issues on this blog. After all, I have my niche, and I’ve become quite good at […]