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An Update on the Work of Oisin Biotechnologies: Building Therapies for Aging, Cancer, and Other Conditions by Targeting Harmful Cells for Destruction
Oisin Biotechnologies is a creation of our core community of longevity advocates, researchers, philanthropists, and others. The present CEO, Gary Hudson, was one of the first donors to support the newly formed Methuselah Foundation fifteen years ago. The company's seed funding was provided by the Methuselah Foundation and SENS Research Foundation a few years ago. A number of people in the audience here, myself included, invested in the company early last year in order to support this initiative. The initial goal of development at Oisin Biotechnologies is the targeted destruction of senescent cells, a path to produce one of...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 5, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

Cassandra Callender ’ s cancer is progressing, and the quackery isn ’ t stopping it
Cassandra Callender made national news a couple of years ago when at age 17 she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and refused chemotherapy. The court ordered that she undergo appropriate treatment, but unfortunately she relapsed. Now she's being treated at a quack clinic in Mexico even as her cancer relentlessly progresses. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 5, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking AARSOTA Autologous Antigen Receptor Specific Oncogenic Target Acquisition cannabis Cassandra Callender coffee enema Hodgkin' Source Type: blogs

Cassandra Callender ’ s cancer is progressing, and the quackery didn ’ t stop it. Let ’ s hope real medicine can.
Cassandra Callender made national news a couple of years ago when at age 17 she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and refused chemotherapy. The court ordered that she undergo appropriate treatment, but unfortunately she relapsed and chose treatment at a quack clinic in Mexico. Continuing to progress, she finally chose real medicine to treat her cancer. Let's hope that it's not too late to save her. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 5, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking AARSOTA Autologous Antigen Receptor Specific Oncogenic Target Acquisition cannabis Cassandra Callender coffee enema Hodgkin' Source Type: blogs

More on Olivia
I am beginning to think I am her fan or something as this is my third post about her.... but once again I am blogging about Olivia Newton John and her cancer recurrence. I have another problem with her and her recurrence. This is it in her statement about what her plans are for recurrence:" I decided on my direction of therapies after consultation with my doctors and natural therapists... "Her plan is to focus on radiation and natural therapies.... I don ' t have a problem with natural therapies but I do have a problem with their use without additional medical therapies.I used to work with a woman who was diagnosed with br...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 4, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: alternative medicine cancer treatment Source Type: blogs

How stigmatized are undervaccinated children and their parents?
Antivaxers often complain that they are judged harshly. It turns out that they are probably correct. But is this a bad thing? More importantly, what about the children, who didn't choose not to be vaccinated? (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 2, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Popular culture social studies stigmatization Source Type: blogs

The annals of “ I ’ m not antivaccine, ” part 25: We ’ re not antivaccine, we just publish posts about stopping the “ Vaccine Holocaust ”
Bloggers at the Age of Autism blog, like most antivaccine activists, vehemently deny that they are antivaccine, claiming instead that they are "vaccine safety" advocates. Their denials are belied by their having published many posts about a "Vaccine Holocaust." (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 31, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine History Holocaust Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking World War II Age of Autism chelation vaccines Source Type: blogs

Quackery invades another once science-based journal
As quackery in the form of “integrative medicine” has increasingly been “integrated” into medicine, medical journals are starting to notice and succumb to the temptation to decrease their skepticism. The BMJ, unfortunately, is the latest to do so. It won’t be the last. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 30, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture quackademic medicine systematic review The BMJ Source Type: blogs

A compound derived from marijuana decreases seizure frequency in children with Dravet syndrome, and there ’ s nothing “ miraculous ” about it
There's a new clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing a beneficial effect due to cannabidiol, a chemical isolated from marijuana, on drug-resistant seizures due to Dravet syndrome. Medical marijuana advocates are crowing, "I told you so!" As is usually the case, the real story is more nuanced. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 26, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking cannabidiol cannabinoids Dravet syndrome epilepsy herbalism marijuana seizure Source Type: blogs

Will Tipper Gore be appearing at a fundraiser hosted by antivaxers?
A story in The Washington Free Beacon claims that Tipper Gore will be appearing at a fundraiser for Kathleen Murphy, a Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates running for reelection to be held by Claire and Albert Dwoskin, two rich antivaxers and donors to the Democratic Party. If the story is true and not fake news that's bad, but even if it turns out not to be true I just had to discuss the Dwoskins, who have been funding antivaccine "studies" for several years now. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 24, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Al Gore Albert Dwoskin Children's Medical Safety Research Institute Claire Dwoskin climate science Kathleen Murp Source Type: blogs

Teaching critical thinking to combat fake news and bullshit: You have to start young
Thanks to social media, fake news, conspiracy theories, and health scams spread faster and farther than ever. The world is in need of critical thinking skills now more than ever. Fortunately, there is hope. Critical thinking can be taught, but teaching these skills works best if you start young. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 23, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Paranormal Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Andy Oxman Informed Health Choices Uganda Source Type: blogs

Tell the FDA not to embrace quackery: Write to oppose its proposal on acupuncture and chiropractic for chronic pain
Chiropractors and acupuncturists have lobbied for a greater role in treating pain. They might well have won it. Last week, the FDA released proposed changes Wednesday to its blueprint on educating health care providers about treating pain, which now recommend that doctors learn about chiropractic care and acupuncture as therapies that might help patients avoid opioids. There’s still time to stop this, but you have to write the FDA. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 22, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture Chiropractic chronic pain fda opioid opioid addiction regulation Source Type: blogs

Acupuncture versus science, acupuncture apologist edition
In the Journal of Integrative Medicine, acupuncturists argue for modernizing acupuncture by uncoupling it from its traditional Chinese medicine background and avoiding the mystical language about qi and meridians. Hilarity ensues, because acupuncture can't be separated from the prescientific mysticism from which it arose. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 19, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture Ted Kaptchuk tongue diagnosis traditional Chinese medicine Source Type: blogs

Acupuncture versus science, linguistic edition
In the Journal of Integrative Medicine, acupuncturists argue for modernizing acupuncture by uncoupling it from its traditional Chinese medicine background and avoiding the mystical language about qi and meridians. Hilarity ensues, because acupuncture can't be separated from the prescientific mysticism from which it arose. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 19, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture Ted Kaptchuk tongue diagnosis traditional Chinese medicine Source Type: blogs

The check must have finally cleared, or: Mawson ’ s incompetent “ vaxed/unvaxed ” study is back online
Two badly designed, incompetently performed "studies" that claimed to show that unvaccinated children are healthier than unvaccinated children were briefly published by a bottom feeding, predatory "open access" journal, and then they disappeared, having apparently been retracted. Now they're back, like Freddie Krueger, Jason, or Michael Myers, and antivaxers are rejoicing. I guess the check must have finally cleared. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 18, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Anthony Mawson Children's Medical Safety Research Institute Claire Dwoskin J.B. Handley Retraction Watch Source Type: blogs

The violent rhetoric of the antivaccine movement: “ Vaccine Holocaust ” and potential impending attacks on journalists
Antivaxers are planning on publishing the personal information of employees of the Boston Herald because the paper published an editorial saying that promoting antivaccine misinformation among a vulnerable population should be a "hanging offense." Meanwhile, overblown allusions to the Holocaust are going into overdrive. Same as it ever was. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 17, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine History Holocaust Politics Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Auschwitz Autism Ginger Taylor hanging lynching Mike Adams Minnesota Source Type: blogs