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Gwyneth Paltrow ’ s goop: Psychic Vampire Repellent as female " empowerment "
Gwyneth Paltrow's goop is continuing to sell snake oil promoted as the "empowerment" of women. Yes, that even includes a psychic vampire repellent, reiki charged. The post Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop: Psychic Vampire Repellent as female "empowerment" appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 22, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Paranormal Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking empowerment Goop Gwyneth Paltrow vampire Source Type: blogs

Quackademic medicine now reigns supreme at UC-Irvine
Yesterday, the University of California, Irvine announced that Susan and Henry Samueli had donated $200 million to establish integrative medicine quackery there. Is this the shape of medicine to come? (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 19, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery Irvine quackademic medicine UCI University of California Irvine Source Type: blogs

Quackademic medicine now reigns supreme at UC-Irvine
Yesterday, the University of California, Irvine announced that Susan and Henry Samueli had donated $200 million to establish integrative medicine quackery there. Is this the shape of medicine to come? The post Quackademic medicine now reigns supreme at UC-Irvine appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 19, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery Irvine quackademic medicine UCI University of California Irvine Source Type: blogs

Naturopaths and quack stem cell clinics revisited
Last week, I wrote about a naturopath imitating the worst of real doctors by running his very own dubious stem cell clinic. He even cosplays an interventional radiologist doing it. Unfortunately, he's far from alone. There are many more naturopaths going down this road. Even more unfortunately, it is MDs who are showing the way. Basically, naturopaths don't just cosplay doctors. They cosplay the worst of doctors as well. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 11, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Jason Porter Julie Keiffer O-Shot stem cell stem cell clinic Stem Cell Rejuvenation Center Source Type: blogs

Naturopaths and quack stem cell clinics revisited
Last week, I wrote about a naturopath imitating the worst of real doctors by running his very own dubious stem cell clinic. He even cosplays an interventional radiologist doing it. Unfortunately, he's far from alone. There are many more naturopaths going down this road. Even more unfortunately, it is MDs who are showing the way. Basically, naturopaths don't just cosplay doctors. They cosplay the worst of doctors as well. The post Naturopaths and quack stem cell clinics revisited appeared first on RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 11, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Jason Porter Julie Keiffer O-Shot stem cell stem cell clinic Stem Cell Rejuvenation Center Source Type: blogs

The Decline and Fall of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
By PAUL KECKLEY The physician-patient relationship is a bedrock of the U.S. health system. Strong relationships are associated with higher ratings for physicians and better outcomes for patients but there’s a catch. In Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Tom Price Senate confirmation and many times since, he has vowed his administration will seek to restore that relationship. But what patients associate with a strong relationship is increasingly at odds with how physicians think. And the gap between the two seems to be widening. Background: Per the American Medical Association, the physician-patient relationship is...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

A naturopathic cancer quack tries to silence criticism with legal thuggery
Britt Hermes is an ex-naturopath who realized that she had become a quack and had the bravery to quit and study to become a real scientist. Because she is an apostate, the church of naturopathy has a special antipathy reserved for her, which is why a "naturopathic oncologist" named Colleen Huber has engaged in legal thuggery to silence her. Not-a-Dr. Huber has apparently never heard of the Streisand Effect, because a look at her website and her incredibly badly done and incompetent clinical study claiming that her treatments plus eliminating processed sugar results in much better cancer survival would be very embarrassing....
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 7, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Quackery baking soda Britt Hermes Colleen Huber institutional review board NatureWorksBest naturopathic oncology Tullio Simoncini Source Type: blogs

In the middle of massive flooding in Texas, antivaxers fear … school vaccine mandates?
Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas two weeks ago, and the recovery effort will take years. As hundreds of thousands start to try to rebuild their shattered lives and homes, antivaxers have some helpful advice on how to avoid vaccines. That's because to antivaxers, it's always about vaccines. Always. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 6, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery antivaccine antivaxers flooding Texas vaccines Source Type: blogs

Patients lose when they chose naturopaths over real doctors
Recently, I came across a news story describing two cancer patients treated by naturopaths in New Zealand. Both died, one almost certainly unnecessarily, the other after enduring more suffering than she likely had to. These tragic cases and others reminded me of why it is so appalling that so many physicians are “integrating” naturopathy into “integrative medicine.” In reality, they are integrating quackery into medicine. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 5, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Quackery cancer curcumin Jade Erick Kim Kelly New Zealand Source Type: blogs

Anti-vaccination beliefs don ’t follow the usual conservative and liberal lines
When health officials learned that the 2015 measles outbreak was caused by clusters of unvaccinated children, Americans once more wanted to understand why some parents do not vaccinate their children. In our highly polarized culture, media commentators and even academics began to connect opposition to vaccination to either the left or right of politics. So a question arises: Who is more likely to be opposed to vaccination, liberals or conservatives? As a sociologist who studies infectious disease, I took a look at this. The answer seems to depend on what question you ask. Because the outbreak started in the wealthy, libera...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 31, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-mccoy" rel="tag" > Charles McCoy, PhD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Trolling the antivaccine trolls
Craig Egan is a man with a mission. He's trolling the antivaccine trolls to promote science, and he's been very successful at it. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 31, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Andrew Wakefield Craig Egan Polly Tommey Somali vaccines Vaxxed Source Type: blogs

“ Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival ”
A blog reader, thank you!, told me about a study (same title as my post) that was recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and that has been picked up by a whole slew of online news sources and blogs, some with ominous titles such as “Alternative medicine kills cancer patients” or “Alternative medicine can kill you.” So what’s all the fuss about? Should we be concerned? Here’s the gist: a team of four Yale researchers carried out an observational case control study, comparing 280 cancer patients who had chosen to use ONLY alternative therapies to 560 patients who had in...
Source: Margaret's Corner - August 30, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival cancer deaths Skyler Johnson Source Type: blogs

3 things parents should know about complementary and alternative medicine
Follow me on Twitter @drClaire More and more, I have families in my practice who are trying out treatments and therapies I didn’t prescribe. Most of the time, it’s absolutely fine. Other times, it’s not. “Complementary and alternative medicine” is a broad term that refers to treatments that are not generally part of traditional Western medicine. It includes things like herbal remedies, dietary supplements or alternative diets, acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy, Chinese remedies, Reiki, or hypnosis. It also includes things like yoga or meditation — and chiropractic medicine. Many of these therapies have becom...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Complementary and alternative medicine Parenting Source Type: blogs

A new nomenclature for auricular acupuncture: The ultimate in Tooth Fairy science
Tooth Fairy science is the study of a phenomenon before having actually demonstrated that the phenomenon actually exists. I can't think of a better example than trying to construct an elaborate mapping system of body parts and organs to the surface of the external ear for purposes of sticking needles in them to heal and relieve pain (auricular acupuncture). Yet that's what's just been published. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 25, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture auricular acupuncture homunculus Source Type: blogs

Confessions of a Healthcare Super User
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH On July 17 of this year, I journeyed from Charlottesville Virginia, where I live, to Seattle to have my cervical spine rebuilt at Virginia Mason Medical Center, whose Neuroscience Institute has a national reputation for telling patients they don’t need surgery. It was my fifth complex surgical episode in 29 months, after more than fifty years of great health. My patient experience has been wrenching, and it made me question yet again the conventional wisdom about doctors and patients that dominates much of our current health policy debate. None of these interventions was remotely elective: head and ne...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs