Biodynamic farming: Like anthroposophic medicine, only on the farm
Rudolf Steiner had a farm, and on that farm he had some woo. It is called biodynamic farming, and what woo it is!
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 19, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking anthroposophic medicine Benzinger Family Winery biodynamic farming featured GMO Rudolf Steiner Source Type: blogs
Are antivaccine groups “ hate groups ” ? Not exactly, but the answer isn ’ t entirely no, either.
Recently, Dr. Peter Hotez characterized antivaccine groups as "hate groups," and antivaxer Barbara Loe Fisher took great umbrage, accusing Dr. Hotez and the public health community of "bullying" parents of "vaccine-injured" children. Did Dr. Hotez go too far? And what about Fisher's hypocrisy, given that Dr. Hotez has received death threats credible enough to warrant police protection and Fisher herself has sued her critics, in effect trying to bully them into silence?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 16, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Holocaust Medicine Politics Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking World War II Barbara Loe Fisher featured hate group National Vaccine Information Center NVIC Paul Offit Pete Source Type: blogs
A bad week for homeopathy is a good week for science
It's been a bad week for homeopathy. First, the NHS in the UK has stopped funding homeopathy in London. Then, news stories appeared about research fraud and a retracted clinical trial of homeopathy for cancer in which the investigators had already been arrested. So sad!
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 14, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Aradeep Chatterjee Ashim Chatterjee Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine featured Prince Charles Royal London Homeopathi Source Type: blogs
Antonietta Gatti and Stefano Montanari: A strange antivaccine conspiracy theory from Italy
A year ago, I wrote about some bad science from Italy from Stefano Montanari and Antonietta Gatti, in which an electron microscope was used and abused to claim that vaccines are contaminated with horrific "nanoparticles." A year later, Gatti and Montanari's homes, labs, and offices were raided and their computers seized in an investigation. Not surprisingly, the antivaccine movement has spun a conspiracy theory out of the raid. The real explanation is likely to be much less sinister.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 13, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bad science Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Antonietta Gatti Beppo Grillo electron microscope featured Five Star Movement nanoparticles Stefano Montanari vacci Source Type: blogs
The cruel sham that is “ right-to-try ” will be up for a vote in the House tomorrow
It's finally happened. A "right-to-try" bill is coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives. It's been slightly modified from the version that passed the Senate last year to make it less patient-hostile, but it's still the same cruel sham that right-to-try has always been.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 12, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Medicine Politics Popular culture fda featured Food and Drug Administration Goldwater Institute institutional review board IRB right to try Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act of 2017 Source Type: blogs
Dr. Paul Thomas: A rising star in the antivaccine movement
For credibility, the antivaccine movement needs antivaccine pediatricians, such as Dr. Jay Gordon and Dr. Bob Sears. Meet the pediatrician who is the latest rising star in the antivaccine movement, Dr. Paul Thomas. He even claims to have his very own "vaxed vs. unvaxed" study.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 9, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bad science Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Bob Sears featured Paul Thomas Pediatric Health Outcomes Initiative registry vaccines Source Type: blogs
Yet more evidence that the antivaccine trope of “ too many too soon ” is nonsense
One of the most persuasive antivaccine talking points to parents tends to be the claim that babies are getting "too many too soon." Here's yet more evidence added to copious other evidence that this particular trope is just that, a trope.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 7, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Clinical trials Medicine case control study featured quackery too many too soon Vaccine Safety Datalink vaccines VAERS VSD Source Type: blogs
How quacks sell dubious stem cell therapies
More and more, alternative medicine practitioners are offering unproven, almost certainly ineffective, and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies. How are they doing it?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 6, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Bioethics Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery alternative medicine featured integrative medicine Naturopaths stem cells Source Type: blogs
I see … schadenfreude. Natural News banned from YouTube.
Over the weekend YouTube deleted the Natural News channel, which is the video arm of Mike Adams' online quackery empire. Adams, not surprisingly is ranting about "censorship." it's not.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 5, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Computers Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery antivaccine featured Google Mike Adams Natural News YouTube Source Type: blogs
While a grant deadline distracts Orac, create your own Insolence! Open thread time!
For the last few days, real life concerns over keeping his lab funded have shockingly interfered with Orac's blogging. Being the benevolent blogmaster that he is, Orac has decided to open the floodgates with an open thread. Create your own Insolence. And, hey, let's be careful out there. And don't push each other's buttons (too much).
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Source: Respectful Insolence - March 1, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Announcements Medicine featured grant Insolence Open thread R01 Source Type: blogs
True believers and scammers in alternative medicine
In the online echo chamber promoting alternative medicine, there are varying degrees of deception. There are true believers (who are often victims), entrepreneurs (who are often true believers who found a profitable business), and scammers. The categories are not mutually exclusive.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - February 26, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery alkaline diet alternative cancer cure testimonial alternative cancer cures belle gibson Brittany Auerbach faith healing featured Mari Lopez Mike Adams scams veganism Source Type: blogs
What ’ s more quackademic medicine than Harvard ’ s acupuncture course? Maybe Duke ’ s reflexology course!
Quackery has thoroughly infiltrated medical academia in the form of "integrative medicine." So what's worse than Harvard offering an acupuncture course? It might be Duke offering a reflexology and reiki course.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - February 23, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture Duke Integrative Medicine Duke University featured Harvard University quackademic medicine reflexology Source Type: blogs
Idaho: The capital of the US for religion-inspired medical neglect of children, thanks to the Followers of Christ
In the US, there is an unfortunate attitude that the parents own their children. When the parents are religious zealots belonging to a church like the Followers of Christ, which believes in prayer instead of medicine, the results are tragic. Unfortunately, we as a society value religious freedom more than children.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - February 21, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Religion Skepticism/critical thinking faith healing Followers of Christ medical neglect quackery Source Type: blogs
Quackademic medicine versus being “ science-based ”
A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by the a reporter from the Georgetown student newsletter about its integrative medicine program. It got me to thinking how delusion that one’s work is science-based can lead to collaborations with New Age “quantum” mystics like Deepak Chopra. "Integrative medicine" doctors engaging in what I like to refer to as quackademic medicine all claim to be "evidence-based" or "science-based." The words apparently do not mean what integrative medicine academics think they mean.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - February 19, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Bad science Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Integrative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery acupuncture Aviad Haramati Chopra Center Deepak Chopra featured Georgetown University Hakima Amri homeopathy Source Type: blogs
Parents are still feeding their children bleach to “ cure ” their autism
Nearly six years ago, I learned of parents who treated their children's autism by feeding them "Miracle Mineral Solution"—or even giving it to them in enemas. It turns out that MMS is a strong bleach. I had thought this cult of bleaching away autism had gone away. I was wrong. Incredibly, parents are still giving their children bleach enemas and tearing up their colons.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - February 16, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Autism Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking antivaccine featured Genesis II Church Jim Humble master mineral solution miracle mineral solution Miracle Mineral Supplement mms vaccines Source Type: blogs
