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Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 3a
The serialization of the novel Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. continues with chapter 3a
Ozone Therapy
Ozone therapy sits in the border zone between science and pseudoscience.
Study laundering: IPAK, antivax “scientists,” and the return of living dead antivax studies
Antivaxxers don't like it when one of their crappy studies that they somehow managed to sneak into a decent peer-reviewed journal is deservedly retracted, as happened to Mark Skidmore's paper that estimated that 278K people might have died from COVID-19 vaccines. Fortunately for Skidmore and others, there exist fake journals that will launder their study by republishing it so that antivaxxers can...
Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 1b.
The serialization continues.
Alternative medicine and antivax: Two crappy tastes that taste crappy together—particularly when among physicians
A recent study reaffirms the high degree of correlation among physicians between antivax views and an embrace of quackery. This is an old finding that needs to be documented periodically and shows why the acceptance of non-science-based treatments by physicians endangers vaccination efforts.
Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera.
Prologue from the serialization of the novel Skeptics in the Pub: Cholera.
Decongestant doesn’t work, concludes FDA advisory committee
An FDA advisory committee has concluded that phenylephrine, a popular decongestant in cough and cold remedies, is ineffective.
Quoth quacks, “The medical consensus has changed before, making my quackery science!”
Brave maverick doctors (i.e., quacks) have long tried to portray themselves as "innovators" challenging an ossified medical consensus for the good of patients. This tradition continues among COVID-19 quacks, in particular the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance and its founders.
The World Health Organization promotes quackery yet again
The World Health Organization held the First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit this weekend. Unfortunately, its claims of being "evidence-based" aside, the conference followed the WHO's usual pattern of serving as propaganda, not science. The summit was one-sided, organized by believers with the only speakers being believers, to promote a predetermined policy goal of promoting traditional medicine and justify "integrating" it with...
Adjectives
When a placebo is called 'powerful', what is meant? Nothing.