Take that, antivaxers! This is nearly the end … of 2017, that is —with puppies!
It's the end of the year. So, before I take the rest of the year off, I thought I'd end on a happy note. What could be happier than puppies?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 27, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Announcements Antivaccine nonsense Personal Dora featured Puppies Source Type: blogs
Take that, antivaxers! This is nearly the end … of 2017, that is … with puppies!
It's the end of the year. So, before I take the rest of the year off, I thought I'd end on a happy note. What could be happier than puppies?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 27, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Announcements Antivaccine nonsense Personal Dora featured Puppies Source Type: blogs
Will 2018 be the year that the FDA finally regulates homeopathic remedies as drugs?
Earlier this week, the FDA issued draft guidance that would, if adopted, allow it to regulate homeopathic remedies as drugs. Will 2018 be the year that the FDA finally stops deferring to homeopaths and regulating homeopathic remedies as drugs?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 22, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Homeopathy Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery fda featured FTC regulation Scott Gottlieb Source Type: blogs
Will 2018 finally be the year that the FDA regulates homeopathic remedies as drugs?
Earlier this week, the FDA issued draft guidance that would, if adopted, allow it to regulate homeopathic remedies as drugs. Will 2018 be the year that the FDA finally stops deferring to homeopaths and regulating homeopathic remedies as drugs?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 22, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Homeopathy Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery fda featured FTC regulation Scott Gottlieb Source Type: blogs
The Trump administration versus “ seven dirty words ” at the CDC
[Orac note: There’s a grant deadline this week; so I’m sorry if you might have seen a version of this elsewhere in the recent past. And, yes, I do know that there are at least two stories out there that demand Insolence, and it pains me not to apply it today. Unfortunately, Trying to keep my lab funded must take precedence over my hobby. C’est la vie. No, actually, it’s killing me not to lay into them.] Ever since Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the Presidential election last year, many of us who advocate for the view that medicine and […]
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 19, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Politics Brenda Fitzgerald CDC Donald Trump featured George Orwell seven dirty words truthiness Source Type: blogs
Dr. Kelly Brogan ’ s e-book “ Vaccines and Brain Health ” : A cornucopia of antivaccine misinformation and pseudoscience
Last week, while discussing the antivaccine stylings of "holistic psychiatrist" Dr. Kelly Brogan, I promised to revisit her e-book "Vaccines and Brain Health." Never let it be said that Orac doesn't keep his promises.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 18, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Antoine Bechamp featured Goop Gwyneth Paltrow Kelly Brogan Louis Pasteur SXSW Wellness Expo vaccines Vaccines and Brain Health Source Type: blogs
Dr. Kelly Brogan ’ s e-book Vaccines and Brain Health: A cornucopia of antivaccine misinformation and pseudoscience
Last week, while discussing the antivaccine stylings of "holistic psychiatrist" Dr. Kelly Brogan, I promised to revisit her e-book "Vaccines and Brain Health." Never let it be said that Orac doesn't keep his promises.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 18, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Antoine Bechamp featured Goop Gwyneth Paltrow Kelly Brogan Louis Pasteur SXSW Wellness Expo vaccines Vaccines and Brain Health Source Type: blogs
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his World Mercury Project: Antivaccine, NOT “ fiercely pro-vaccine ”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. claims that he is "fiercely pro-vaccine." His words and actions say otherwise, for instance his Indiegogo campaign to raise money to promote antivaccine misinformation.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 15, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices CDC Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Deadly Immunity fda featured Indiegogo Post-licensure Rapid Immunization Safety Mo Source Type: blogs
Florida: A paradise for dubious stem cell clinics
Many are the stem cell clinics that hype their product as basically a magical cure for whatever ails you like so many used car salesmen deploying the hard sell. Florida seems to be the paradise where these poorly regulated clinics ply their unethical trade.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 13, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Autism Bad science Politics Pseudoscience Quackery featured Florida Jeffrey Weiss Lung Institute MD Stem Cells Regenocyte Stem Cell Ophthalmology Treatment Study Source Type: blogs
The quackery of “ naturopathic oncology ” is metastasizing
"Integrating" naturopathic care with real medicine started out largely in academic medical centers. Unfortunately, the cancer of integrative oncology appears to be metastasizing to community hospitals.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 12, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Integrative medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking FABNO featured naturopathic oncology not a doctor Source Type: blogs
The Pathological Optimist: When “ not taking sides ” over Andrew Wakefield means taking a side
The Pathological Optimist is a recently released documentary by Miranda Bailey about Andrew Wakefield that I got a chance to see. In interviews and in the film’s promotional materials, Bailey takes great pains to emphasize that she “doesn’t take a side” about Wakefield. Unfortunately, her film demonstrates that, when it comes to pseudoscience, “not taking a side” is taking a side, and that a film’s bias is often more evident in what is not shown and told than in what is.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 11, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Movies Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Religion Andrew Wakefield Brian Deer Miranda Bailey The Pathological Optimist vaccines Source Type: blogs
Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop double down on quackery by featuring an HIV/AIDS denialist and antivaccine quack at its upcoming Goop Summit
Earlier this year, Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop held a quackfest in New York City. Well, the second in Goop Health quackfest is coming in January, and Goop is doubling down on the quackery by featuring Dr. Kelly Brogan, HIV/AIDS denialist and antivaccine and anti-psychiatry quack.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 8, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine Popular culture Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking AIDS coffee enemas depression featured German New Medicine Goop Gwyneth Paltrow HIV HIV/AIDS denialism in Goop Health Kelly Brogan Source Type: blogs
Lowering the bar for traditional Chinese medicine for ideology and profit
In the 1950s, Chairman Mao Zedong began the "integration" of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into real medicine. Last year, the Chinese government passed a bill to promote the sale of TCM products. This. year, we see what that means.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 7, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Medicine Politics Quackery acupuncture Chairman Mao China featured Mao Zedong traditional Chinese medicine Source Type: blogs
Professor Christopher Exley: The latest darling of the antivaccine movement
Last week, I told Christopher Shaw to move over, because there was a new antivaccine scientist in town. This week, Christopher Exley speaks and proves why it's correct to call him antivaccine.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 6, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking Albert Dwoskin aluminum Children's Medical Safety Research Institute Christina England Christopher Exley Claire Dwoskin CMSRI featured Pour des vaccins sans alu Source Type: blogs
Integrating pseudoscience and mysticism into oncology in bastions of evidence-based medicine
Last week, I commented on the inability of the Society for Integrative Oncology to define what integrative oncology actually is. This week, I note the proliferation of the quackery of integrative oncology in places that should be rigorously science-based, namely NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 4, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Quackery featured National Cancer Institute NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center quackademic medicine society for integrative oncology Source Type: blogs
