"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: Quackery

RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be a catastrophe for public health and medical research

Post author By Orac
Post date November 15, 2024
104 Comments on RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be a catastrophe for public health and medical research

President-Elect Donald Trump has nominated antivax activist, conspiracy theorist, and all around crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. We are so screwed.

Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Pseudoscience Quackery

Antivaxxers embrace the solvent DMSO as a cure-all

Post author By Orac
Post date October 30, 2024
10 Comments on 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.

Tags A Midwestern Doctor, A Midwestern Quack, antivaccine, cancer, dimethyl sulfoxide, DMSO, fda, Food and Drug Administration, Frances Oldham Kelsey, thalidomide, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Quackery

Antivaxxers launch a frontal assault on the Killer Rabbit of plasmids

Post author By Orac
Post date October 28, 2024
No Comments on Antivaxxers launch a frontal assault on the Killer Rabbit of plasmids

Ever since recombinant DNA has been used to develop and manufacture vaccines, antivaxxers have portrayed it as evil. This weekend, an antivaxxer decided that fear mongering about SV40 in COVID-19 vaccines wasn’t enough. Here we go again…

Tags 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, Ah Kahn Syed, antivaccine, Arkmedic, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, David Speicher, DNA contamination, Kevin McKernan, mRNA vaccine, Phillip Buckhaults, plasmid, polio vaccine, SV40, vaccines

Medicine Politics Quackery

The NCCIH embraces the “integration” of functional medicine quackery with medicine

Post author By Orac
Post date October 7, 2024
1 Comment on The NCCIH embraces the “integration” of functional medicine quackery with medicine

The process of “integrating” quackery with medicine continues apace as the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health embraces the quackery that is “functional medicine” to promote “whole person health,” whatever that means.

Tags functional medicine, Helene Langevin, MAHA, make America healthy again, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medic, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, NCCIH Coalition for Whole Person Health, NIH, whole person health, whole person medicine

Announcements Cancer Quackery

Some blog housekeeping and a bit of shameless self-promotion

Post author By Orac
Post date September 30, 2024
18 Comments on 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.

Tags cancer, cancer misinformation, misinformation, quackery, University of Wisconsin

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