"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).

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Quackademic medicine, COVID-19 edition, part 1: Magic amulets

Post author By Orac
Post date October 30, 2020
127 Comments on Quackademic medicine, COVID-19 edition, part 1: Magic amulets

“Quackademic medicine” is a term coined to describe the increasing infiltration of pseudoscience and quackery into medical academia. Unsurprisingly, we’re starting to see quackademic medicine turn its attention to COVID-19. In this case, traditional Chinese medicine is invoked to claim that magic amulets might prevent COVID-19,

Tags amulet, coronavirus, COVID-19, indigenous knowledge systems, indigenous medicine, indigenous ways of knowing, pandemic, quackademia, quackademic medicine, Retraction Watch, SARS-CoV-2, traditional Chinese medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery Religion

A tale of two unnecessarily doomed aboriginal girls with leukemia

Post author By Orac
Post date January 20, 2015
173 Comments on A tale of two unnecessarily doomed aboriginal girls with leukemia

I’m depressed and angry as I write this. The reason for this is simple. I hate it when cancer quacks claim the lives of patients with cancer, particularly patients who were eminently treatable for cure. It’s happened again, and it makes me sad. Florida cancer quack Brian Clement has claimed the life of Makayla Sault, […]

Tags Brian Clement, Canada, chemotherapy, First Nations, Florida, Hippocrates Health Institute, indigenous medicine, lymphoblastic leukemia, Makayla Sault, Ojibwe, Ongwehowe Onongwatri:yo, quackery, Six Nations, stroke

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