"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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RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be a catastrophe for public health and medical research

Post author By Orac
Post date November 15, 2024
68 Comments on RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be a catastrophe for public health and medical research

President-Elect Donald Trump has nominated antivax activist, conspiracy theorist, and all around crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. We are so screwed.

Medicine Politics Quackery

The NCCIH embraces the “integration” of functional medicine quackery with medicine

Post author By Orac
Post date October 7, 2024
1 Comment on The NCCIH embraces the “integration” of functional medicine quackery with medicine

The process of “integrating” quackery with medicine continues apace as the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health embraces the quackery that is “functional medicine” to promote “whole person health,” whatever that means.

Tags functional medicine, Helene Langevin, MAHA, make America healthy again, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medic, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, NCCIH Coalition for Whole Person Health, NIH, whole person health, whole person medicine

Clinical trials Pseudoscience Quackery

Quelle surprise. Son of TACT (TACT2) shows that chelation therapy doesn’t work for heart disease

Post author By Orac
Post date May 6, 2024
24 Comments on Quelle surprise. Son of TACT (TACT2) shows that chelation therapy doesn’t work for heart disease

Chelation therapy broom — Nope. Chelation therapy does NOT work like this to treat blockages due to atherosclerosis. In fact, it doesn't work at all, despite what quacks have claimed.

Orac has long argued that chelation therapy for heart disease is quackery. An abstract presented last month finally confirmed that. Why did it take so long?

Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Did Anthony Fauci have a “conflict of interest” because his wife is Chief of Bioethics at NIH?

Post author By Orac
Post date January 3, 2023
40 Comments on Did Anthony Fauci have a “conflict of interest” because his wife is Chief of Bioethics at NIH?

While Orac was off last week, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk resurrected an antivax conspiracy theory that Anthony Fauci’s wife was “supposed to make sure” that he “behaves ethically.”

Tags Anthony Fauci, bioethics, Christine Grady, conspiracy theories, COVID contrarian, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Elon Musk, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, NIAID, NIH, Twitter

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Popular culture Science Skepticism/critical thinking

NIH funding lies weaponized as disinformation

Post author By Orac
Post date May 3, 2022
91 Comments on NIH funding lies weaponized as disinformation

It’s depressing to see formerly respected academics spread lies about the NIH funding process in order to undermine trust in COVID-19 public health science.

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