Tag: cancer
Why cancer patients choose “integrative oncology” and what they get: Perception vs. reality
Two recent studies, one from France and one from Taiwan, examine why patients seek "integrative" oncology and what they get. An undercover investigation shows how divorced from reality their perception is.
Alternative cancer clinics, distrust of medicine, and MAHA
Yesterday's New York Times featured an article about a man with terminal lung cancer who was enticed to chase cures that didn't exist. He died before the pandemic. Will MAHA turbocharge this sort of quackery in the US?
The metastasis hoax?
An anonymous blogger cites a virus denier who claims that our understanding of the mechanisms of cancer metastasis is a "hoax." I cringe but cannot resist. Damn.
Cancer quackery: Under MAHA, everything old is new again
A viral Instagram post claims that cancer is not a disease, but rather a defense mechanism against "toxins." Everything old is new again under MAHA.
Just in Case
What oncology's hardest decisions can teach the rest of medicine.
A shoddy, ethically-challenged cancer study gets published… for now.
Update on ivermectin/mebendazole cancer study
Can Ivermectin and Mebendazole Treat Cancer?
A Closer Look at a Viral Claim
Using alternative medicine to treat cancer, even alongside conventional therapies, is still a bad idea
With the MAHA movement poised to introduce a lot more "integrative" or "complementary and alternative" treatments into oncology (and medicine in general), a new study shows the likely result.
RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 8): “Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury,” ACIP, and a prominent oncologist
The MAHA Institute is holding an event called MEVI Roundtable: Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury to fear monger about vaccines. Unfortunately, Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, a prominent oncologist-scientist, will participate.
MAHA: Everything old is new again, except this time antiscience cranks (like Stanislaw Burzynski) are in charge
Returning from my hiatus, I couldn't decide on a specific new topic, mainly because so much bad stuff happened in my absence. So, in this post I back up a bit to reflect on how RFK Jr.'s "make America healthy again" is nothing new. What is new is that the antiscience-cranks are in charge.