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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

The Academic Woo Aggregator

Note: The Aggregator was updated on May 18, 2008. Last week, almost on a whim, I decided to try to figure out just how much woo has infiltrated academic medicine by trying to come up with an estimate of just how many academic medical centers offer woo of some form or another in the form […]

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Science is irrelevant. Resistance is futile.

“I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us.” – Locutus of Borg. “Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile…Your culture will adapt to service ours.” — The Borg. I’m a bit depressed these days. Maybe a better term for it […]

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It looks like the University of Cincinnati is another candidate for the Academic Woo Aggregator

Having lived in Ohio for eight years and married a woman from the Toledo area, I had come to think that Ohioans had more common sense. I guess I was wrong. On the other hand, I should have realized that I was wrong. After all, Ohio is home to The Ohio State University Center for […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

There’s no woo like Harvard woo

I’d start out by saying that here’s another one for my (in)famous Academic Woo Aggregator, except that this institution is already a part of the Woo Aggregator. The only thing I can say is that Steve Novella (who’s from Yale and has had to manage an influx of woo at his home institution) might get […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Rats! My Academic Woo Aggregator is hopelessly out of date