Cracking Down on Chiropractic Pseudoscience
A recent CBC News investigation reveals the common pseudoscientific claims and quackery of Manitoba chiropractors.
The Anti-Vaccine Narrative Just Gets Darker
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are dark by their very nature. A recent article shows how dark, cynical, and paranoid they can get.
Why Do Prestigious Hospitals Sell Snake Oil?
It is important for consumers to understand the phenomenon of hospitals, even prestigious hospitals, offering dubious treatments, and how we got here. Don't be fooled by the apparent endorsement of nonsense. It is still nonsense.
The ADHD Controversy
ADHD was already a controversial diagnosis; are Jerome Kagan's recent criticisms of it warranted?
Acupuncture and Migraine – New JAMA Study
Yet another poorly designed acupuncture study with dubious results is being presented as if it were compelling evidence.
Regulating Health Care Products
How should we optimally regulate health care products to protect consumers? A conversation with the Acting Chairman of the FTC.
Russian Academy of Sciences Calls Homeopathy Pseudoscience
That homeopathy is pure pseudoscience is not news. Its basic principles are essentially magic, and the preparation of homeopathic products is indistinguishable from brewing a magic potion. Its two core principles, as the commission states, are a priori dogma - that like cures like, and that diluting substances out of existence leaves behind their magical essence. Science has progressed over two centuries...
Communicating with the Locked In (update)
Researchers have made an incremental advance in using imaging and computers to communicate with patients who are completely locked-in. Let's review the state of this technology.
Acupuncture for Infantile Colic
Another low-quality acupuncture study falls victim to p-hacking and spreads unsupported claims for the efficacy of this failed treatment.
Cleveland Clinic Fully Embraces Pseudoscience
A recent and embarrassing anti-vaccine screed from the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Center produced a media backlash. Toby Cosgrove, CEO and President of the Cleveland Clinic, had the opportunity to re-dedicate his organization to good science and medical practice. Instead he doubled-down on the Cleveland Clinic's embrace of quackademic medicine and pseudoscience.