Orac takes this opportunity to explain his absence and do a little blog housekeeping, followed by some shameless self-promotion.
Tag: quackery
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.
I’ve long been writing about “alternative cancer clinics” (i.e., quack clinics) that sell false hope in the form of very expensive but ineffective treatments to desperate cancer patients. A recent study demonstrates how they use Google to do this.
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has finally revoked the Board certifications of two prominent COVID quacks, Drs. Paul Marik and Pierre Kory. What took so long?
Tech bro turned antivaxxer Steve Kirsch recently suffered a devastating subretinal hemorrhage. While I hope he recovers his vision, antivaxxers are being antivaxxers and blaming his vision loss on vaccines.