Category: Traditional Chinese Medicine
The Red Marks of Pseudo-Medicine: Gua Sha
Claiming that an inflammatory response to injury is inherently therapeutic is a massive leap of faith.
The World Health Organization on Traditional Medicine
The World Health Organization updated their guidelines on "traditional medicine." Unfortunately, as has been the case in the past the WHO tends to be far too credulous about unproven and disproven treatments.
Pet Acupuncture and Life
Traditional Inuit whale acupuncture.
Traditional Medicine Based Extinction. An Update.
What we do best.
Revisiting “integrative oncology”: The battle to integrate quackery with oncology continues
Nature Reviews Cancer published a propaganda piece disguised as commentary promoting "integrative oncology," or what I like to call "integrating" quackery with oncology.
Pulse Diagnostics
Perhaps the EKG of my bulldog. TCPM wouldn't have a clue what was going on.
Tongue
TCPM Tongue diagnosis. Garbage in, garbage out.
Best Hospital Eye Roll
Science: Figuring things out is better than making things up. A tee shirt I recently saw. Except… In a recent post Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki, Steve seemed surprised that the Mayo was offering Reiki. I don’t know. Maybe he was channeling Louie. I know the Mayo is a top hospital, but I trained in Minneapolis at Hennepin County and we would have...
Boosting. What To Do.
The immune system can't be "boosted." It is an inane concept used by those who promote unscientific approaches to medicine.
Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera.
Prologue from the serialization of the novel Skeptics in the Pub: Cholera.