"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Category: Politics

What do licensing naturopaths and banning abortion have in common?

Post author By Orac
Post date July 6, 2022
33 Comments on What do licensing naturopaths and banning abortion have in common?

SCOTUS and abortion — The six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court have just pulled off the ultimate exercise of judicial alchemy that is a direct assault on science-based medicine in reproductive health care.

The Supreme Court’s striking down Roe v. Wade and the subsequent abortion bans it enabled remind me very much of naturopathic licensure laws. They’re both based on pseudoscience and ideology.

Tags abortion, breast cancer, Chiropractic, COVID-19, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, licensure, naturopathy, quackery, Supreme Court

Medicine Politics

SBM isn’t so great when you can’t afford it

Post author By Orac
Post date June 27, 2022
28 Comments on SBM isn’t so great when you can’t afford it

I argue that science-based medicine (SBM) is the best medicine. Unfortunately, SBM isn’t nearly as great when so many people can’t afford it.

Tags COVID, COVID-19, medical debt, pandemic, public heatlh, SBM, science-based evidence, science-based medicine, single payer, universal health insurance

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Skepticism/critical thinking

Nazis. With the Brownstone Institute it’s always Nazis.

Post author By Orac
Post date June 22, 2022
43 Comments on Nazis. With the Brownstone Institute it’s always Nazis.

The Brownstone Institute is once again promoting the tired narrative that public health interventions for COVID-19 are incipient fascism and those supporting them Nazis. Unfortunately, this false narrative resonates.