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Antivaccine nonsense Homeopathy

Slapped on the wrist for misrepresenting homeopathic nosodes as vaccines

Jeanette Breen and homeopathic nosodes

Jeannette Breen, a certified nurse-midwife, sold homeopathic nosodes as routine childhood vaccinations and got a slap on the wrist for fraud.

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Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

A quack is launching his own AI chatbot in 2024

Skynet AI
From a perspective of science, medicine, reason, and skepticism, this is what Mike Adams' AI chatbot reminds me of.

Crank, quack, and antivaxxer Mike Adams is unhappy with current AI systems. So he’s developing his own “natural health” large language model-based AI chatbot for 2024. Hilarity will ensue, for sure, but is he at the vanguard of a dangerous trend?

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Have a very Orac Christmas.
Have a very Orac Christmas. (Orac is the computer, not the man. That's Vila.)

Happy Holidays from your cranky but benevolent supercomputer blogger. He rests for now but will up the Insolence in the new year.

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Cancer Homeopathy Medicine

Homeopathic quackery vs…a fibroadenoma?

fibroadenoma
What a fibroadenoma looks like under the microscope.

Homepaths think they can treat a fibroadenoma? As a breast cancer surgeon, I am offended and amused at their cluelessness. Truly, homeopathy is The One Quackery To Rule Them All.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Quackery

What is “medical freedom”? Not what “health freedom” advocates claim

Medical freedom
"Medical freedom." You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means. Certainly it doesn't mean what Dr. Clayton Baker thinks it means.

Dr. Clayton Baker at the Brownstone Institute attempts to define “medical freedom” by deceptively wrapping it in what on first glance would seem to be unobjectionable principles.