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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Pseudoscience Quackery

Antivaxxers embrace the solvent DMSO as a cure-all

Showing once again that there is no old quackery that antivaxxers won’t embrace, “A Midwestern Doctor” touts the solvent DMSO as a cure-all.

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Cancer Medicine

Antivax cancer quacks go “orthomolecular”

Antivaxxers have gone full cancer quack. This time, they’re peddling “orthomolecular medicine” nonsense in the form of a bad study. Same as it ever was.

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Announcements Cancer Quackery

Some blog housekeeping and a bit of shameless self-promotion

Orac takes this opportunity to explain his absence and do a little blog housekeeping, followed by some shameless self-promotion.

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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine

Myrna Mantaring and the bogus claim that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 1,432.33% increase in cancer

Myrna Mattaring, a retired scientist who worked in diagnostic labs, claims that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 1432% increase in cancer cases, a clearly impossible claim. Here I make a plea for examining such claims, including a much more famous and accepted one, with basic math.

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Cancer Popular culture Surgery

Not exactly “sensible medicine” for Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer

Adam Cifu and Vinay Prasad at Sensible Medicine defend Elle Macpherson’s decision not to undergo chemotherpay for her breast cancer. Too bad they shortchange the quackery in doing so.