I didn’t get back home until late last night; unfortunately there was no time to do a segment of Your Friday Dose of Woo that was up to my standards. Fortunately, there’s something that I’ve been holding in reserve for just such an occasion that fits right in. Long-timers may remember that, near the very […]
Category: Quackery
Another one has fallen. Yes, another prestigious medical school has given in. First I lamented the decline in basic science education in medical schools. Then, I lamented even more the infiltration of woo into the curricula of far too many medical schools, spurred on by patient demand, a desire for a nice, high profit cash-on-the-barrelhead […]
Somehow, in all the blogging about dichloroacetate earlier this week, I somehow missed a mention of a truly annoying thing that the editors of Lancet Neurology did. In essence, they allowed ethically challenged mercury warrior Mark Geier a forum to review Richard Lathe’s book Autism, Brain, and Environment. Egads! How desperate wer the editors of […]
Remember how I alluded to the fact that perhaps I’ve been doing a little too much blogging about dichloroacetate and the unscrupulous “entrepreneurs” who are taking advantage of desperate cancer patients to sell the stuff to them? Well, I can’t resist mentioning something truly amusing that I just noticed. The “health freedom” warriors and “entrepreneurs” […]
I’ve probably beat this one into the ground over the last couple of days; so this will be uncharacteristically brief, because it’s time to move on. Also, it was fun to see DaveScot go into paroxysms to try to justify the dangerous, unethical, and reckless actions of Heather Nordstrom and her stepfather in setting up […]