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Cancer Medicine

Antivax cancer quacks go “orthomolecular”

Orthomolecular cancer quackery1

Antivaxxers have gone full cancer quack. This time, they’re peddling “orthomolecular medicine” nonsense in the form of a bad study. Same as it ever was.

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Popular culture Quackery

Another unnecessary death in the making, thanks to cancer quackery

Alex Wynn and her cancer treatment. Unfortunately, veggies and fruits will not stop her cancer.

I hate stories like this, but what I hate even more is the way stories like this are all too commonly reported. Readers have been sending me links to stories about a woman named Alex Wynn that have been published over the last few days, in particular this story about her in the Daily Mail […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

High dose vitamin C can cure Ebola virus disease? Not so fast…

Before I got sidetracked with a certain topic that’s consumed the blog, another topic that had popped up (albeit nowhere near as frequently) was the latest Ebola virus disease outbreak in Africa, the largest in history thus far. Indeed, as horrific as this outbreak is and as terrible a disease as Ebola is, with close […]

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Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Vitamin C for cancer: Trying to rise from the grave once again

There are certain things that can happen that are the equivalent of the Bat Signal to me; that is, if you can swallow the idea of me being in any way like Bruce Wayne. Call them the Cancer Signal, if you will. When I see the Cancer Signal, I know that I have to head […]