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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

An even more typical than typical “alternative medicine” breast cancer testimonial

I got home from work rather late last night; so for once I’ll spare you my typical Orac-ian level of logorrhea today. Yes, I know how much the ravening hordes of my fans thirst for every bit of wisdom that flows from my keyboard to Seed Magazine’s servers and from there to the world, but […]

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Bioethics Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Jeremy Sherr, homeopathy for AIDS in Africa, and the most fortunate failure of memory holes in the age of Internet

I almost feel sorry for homeopathy Jeremy Sherr. Almost. You see, he is busily learning a lesson that HIV/AIDS denialist Celia Farber learned a couple of weeks ago, namely that, unlike the fictional nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, memory holes do not work very well in the Internet age. I’ll backtrack a […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Movies Quackery

An open letter to Seth Aronson about his breast cancer movie project

I hate to finish up the week on a bit of a downer, but unfortunately this week I really wasn’t in the mood to do justice to Your Friday Dose of Woo, even though I have at least a couple of potential targets–I mean subjects–to cover for my (hopefully) fun little Friday exercise. I was […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

If it’s “natural,” it must be better. It just has to be.

My dear readers, I beg your indulgence for the moment. I had been planning on doing something a bit more serious than what I’ve been up to lately. Believe it or not, NaturalNews.com pointed me to a study that’s actually pretty interesting. It even challenges to some extend existing results. Of course, Mike Adams’ minion’s […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Abusing celebrities with cancer in order to promote quackery

I find it hard to believe that we’re already two weeks into 2009. The older I get and the longer I’ve been blogging, it seems, the faster time files. It’s gotten so bad that it’s not at all infrequent that I remember a post that I’ve written, go searching for it, and end up amazed […]