Month: July 2014

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Separating facts from fiction

Does multiple chemical sensitivity exist? The symptoms certainly do, but it's less clear if they are due to "chemicals".

/ July 3, 2014

The Center for Inquiry weighs in on the FDA’s mishandling of Stanislaw Burzynski’s clinical trials

The Center for Inquiry points out how what Stanislaw Burzynski is doing corrupts the clinical trial process and harms patients.

/ July 3, 2014

Beware The P-Value

The p-value was meant to be used as a convenient and quick test to evaluate how likely a result was due to chance, or a real effect. It has since come to be treated as an indication of importance or truth, particularly in the CAM world. This is a problem.

/ July 2, 2014

Why Doctors Order Too Many Tests

While cleaning out some old files, I was delighted to find an article I had clipped and saved 35 years ago: a “Sounding Boards” article from the January 25, 1979 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. It was written by Joseph E. Hardison, MD, from the Emory University School of Medicine; it addresses the reasons doctors order unnecessary tests, and...

/ July 1, 2014

Stanislaw Burzynski’s propaganda victory on antineoplastons: The FDA really caves

Once more, the FDA fails to shut down Stanislaw Burzynski's clinic and antineoplaston manufacturing operation. Cancer patients will suffer as a result of the FDA's failure.

/ July 1, 2014