Ebola Virus Mutates On Entry Into United States. Responds To Antibiotics
Atlanta, GA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting two American aid workers who contracted Ebola hemorrhagic fever while treating others in West Africa have started responding to treatment with antibiotics. "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine Ebola would respond to antibiotics," Dr. Feldor Baldink, a public health physician with the CDC, said in a statement Sunday. Dr. Kent Brantley and Nancy Writebol were flown urgently back to the United States and transferred to Emory University, one of just a handful of American medical centers that are specially equipped to do nothing...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - August 3, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Homeopaths vs. Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever
Homeopathy is quackery. There, I’ve fulfilled my normal requirement to start out all posts that I write having to do with homeopathy with a simple, declarative, and, most of all, true statement about what homeopathy is. I also like to mention briefly homeopathy’s two major “laws.” The first is the Law of Similars, a totally… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever Homeopaths Without Borders outbreak Source Type: blogs
Millennials and CAM use: Some depressing news
After having returned from TAM, I was pumped up by how much interest was shown in the case of Stanislaw Burzynski. More importantly, I was heartened to learn while I was there that the Texas Medical Board had submitted an amended complaint against him containing 202 pages worth of charges. Sure, the descriptions of the… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 15, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery Baby Boomers Generation X Millennials National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM supplements Source Type: blogs
Homeopathy was quackery in 1796, it was quackery in 1988, and it will still be quackery in 2096
This is a post about homeopathic quackery. But I repeat myself. Those of you who’ve been readers here for a while have no doubt encountered Dana Ullman. He’s been popping up from time to time as a topic of this blog for many years now, almost to the very beginning, when he began spewing the… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - July 3, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery dana ullman Samuel Hahnemann Source Type: blogs
What “Thinking” about autism (or anything) is not
Yesterday’s post was just too depressing to contemplate and even more depressing to write. It was a total downer after seen the awesomeness that was John Oliver gloriously skewering America’s Quack Dr. Mehmet Oz. That’s why I think it would be good to finish this week on an amusing note. Well, it would be amusing… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 27, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery deltron energy medicine information theory Laura Hirsch Marti Perry Michael Parry psychic artist psychic medium Reiki vaccines Source Type: blogs
What if homeopathy invaded the ER? This.
British comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb imagines what a homeopathic ER would look like. I love the “homeopathic lager” at the 2:20 mark of the sketch. Classic.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 25, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Admin Tags: Video Emergency Source Type: blogs
More hype than science: Ketogenic diets for cancer
If this looks a bit familiar to some of you, let’s just say that it’s grant crunch time again. This should be over after today. I hope. In the meantime, one of the difficult things about science-based medicine is determining what is and isn’t quackery. While it is quite obvious that modalities such as homeopathy,… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 24, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Ketogenic diet Thomas Seyfried Source Type: blogs
The fallout from the Senate’s Oz-fest: Defending the indefensible
It’s been three days since America’s quack, Dr. Mehmet Oz, had his posterior handed to him by a wily old prosecutor who is now a Senator, Claire McCaskill. The beauty of it is that, not only was Dr. Oz called, in essence, a liar to his face and not only was he called out for… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 20, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery Television acupuncture Claire McCaskill Jill Blakeway Mehmet Oz Mike Adams NaturalNews.com The Dr. Oz Show Source Type: blogs
An astoundingly dumb bit of CAM apologia from thousands of miles away
One of the benefits of blogging is that it’s broadened my horizons. Although the vast majority of what I write about happens in my very own country, the United States, nonetheless I frequently learn about things happening in many other countries, some that I wouldn’t necessarily pay a lot of attention to. But when something… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 19, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Politics Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Source Type: blogs
Bad financial management at Kings College London means VC Rick Trainor is firing 120 scientists
This article, by Bruce Alberts, Marc W. Kirschner, Shirley Tilghman, and Harold Varmus, should be read by everyone. They observe that ” . . . little has been done to reform the system, primarily because it continues to benefit more established and hence more influential scientists”. I’d be more impressed by the senior people at Kings if they spent time trying to improve the system rather than firing people because their research is not sufficiently expensive.
10 June 2014
Progress on the cull, according to an anonymous correspondent
“The omnishambles that is KCL management
1) We were told we woul...
Source: DC's goodscience - June 7, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia assessment HEFCE management bollocks managerialism metrics Rick Trainor science UUK Anne Greenough bibliometrics Karen O’Brien Robert Lechler Shitij Kapur Simon Howell Universities UK vice-chancellors Source Type: blogs
Bad financial management at Kings College London means VC Rick Trainor is firing 120 scientists
This article, by Bruce Alberts, Marc W. Kirschner, Shirley Tilghman, and Harold Varmus, should be read by everyone. They observe that ” . . . little has been done to reform the system, primarily because it continues to benefit more established and hence more influential scientists”. I’d be more impressed by the senior people at Kings if they spent time trying to improve the system rather than firing people because their research is not sufficiently expensive.
10 June 2014
Progress on the cull, according to an anonymous correspondent
“The omnishambles that is KCL management
1) We were told we woul...
Source: DC's goodscience - June 7, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia assessment HEFCE management bollocks managerialism metrics Rick Trainor science UUK Anne Greenough bibliometrics Karen O’Brien Robert Lechler Shitij Kapur Simon Howell Universities UK vice-chancellors Source Type: blogs
The kudzu of quackademic medicine infiltrates the University of Florida
One of the themes of this blog since the very beginning of this blog is the threat to scientific medicine represented by a phenomenon that I like to call quackademic medicine. Although I did not coin the term, I frequently use the term and have done my best to popularize it among skeptics to describe… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 8, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery acupuncture Art in Medicine program Irene Estores quackademic medicine Tina Mullen University of Florida Source Type: blogs
Quoth David Katz: Don’t abandon patients. Abandon science instead.
Dr. David L. Katz is apparently unhappy with me. You remember Dr. Katz, don’t you? If you don’t, I’ll remind you momentarily. If you do, you won’t be surprised. Let me explain a bit first how Dr. Katz recently became aware of me again. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a short (for me)… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 6, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery David Katz integrative medicine postmodernism Source Type: blogs
Naturopaths vie for Medicare reimbursement with a dubious survey
Naturopathy is a pseudodiscipline that resembles a Chinese menu of quackery, in which naturopaths select one from column A and two from column B, with each column containing a list of modalities ranging from pure quackery like homeopathy and traditional Chinese medicine to mundane modalities that naturopaths embrace, “rebrand” as “alternative,” and woo-ify and oversell… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 28, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Politics Quackery Source Type: blogs
An herbal medicine clinic at the Cleveland Clinic: Quackademia triumphant
I don’t recall if I’ve ever mentioned my connection with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF). I probably have, but just don’t remember it. Longtime readers might recall that I did my general surgery training at Case Western Reserve University at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Indeed, I did my PhD there as well in the Department… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - April 24, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Quackery acupuncture Cleveland Clinic Galicia Roofener quackademic medicine traditional Chinese medicine Source Type: blogs
