"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

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

Antivaccine nonsense Politics Quackery

“MAHA”? Antivax conspiracy monger RFK Jr. is not the one to “make America healthy again”

Post author By Orac
Post date September 16, 2024
97 Comments on “MAHA”? Antivax conspiracy monger RFK Jr. is not the one to “make America healthy again”

RFK Jr and Donald Trump: MAHA? — RFK Jr and Donald Trump.

Shortly after endorsing Donald Trump for President, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he and Trump will “make America healthy again.” His proposals to do that range from semi-reasonable to outright quackery.

Tags antivaccine, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Department of Health and Human Services, Donald Trump, fda, Food and Drug Administration, MAGA, MAHA, make America great again, make America healthy again, naturopathy, pharmaceutical companies, public health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine Quackery

Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer: Another example of how antivax and quackery are inseparable

Post author By Orac
Post date September 4, 2024
16 Comments on Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer: Another example of how antivax and quackery are inseparable

When last I wrote about Elle Macpherson, she was dating Andrew Wakefield. I now learn that she treated her breast cancer with quackery. One more time, antivax and quackery are inseparable, and portraying the choice of quackery as “brave” is irresponsible.

Tags Andrew Wakefield, antivaccine, breast cancer, cancer, DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ, Elle Macpherson, HER2, Herceptin, naturopathic oncology, naturopathy, Olivia Newton-John, Simone Laubscher, The Australian Women's Weekly, trastuzumab, vaccines

Cancer Quackery

“Integrative oncology” continues to integrate quackery into oncology

Post author By Orac
Post date August 26, 2024
2 Comments on “Integrative oncology” continues to integrate quackery into oncology

Nature Reviews Cancer published a propaganda piece disguised as commentary promoting “integrative oncology,” or what I like to call “integrating” quackery with oncology.

Tags cancer, complementary and alternative medicine, integrative medicine, integrative oncology, society for integrative oncology

Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine Quackery

Michael Yeadon turns on ivermectin, and hilarity ensues

Post author By Orac
Post date August 21, 2024
25 Comments on Michael Yeadon turns on ivermectin, and hilarity ensues

Let Them Fight — This is what Orac always says about crank fights.

Antivaxxer Michael Yeadon helped initiate and popularize the myth that COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility. Now he’s turned on ivermectin, the favorite quack cure for COVID-19, and I’m here for it.

Tags COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 vaccines, hydroxychloroquine, infertility, ivermectin, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, Michael Yeadon, Tess Lawrie, Tim Truth, turbo cancer, William Makis

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