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Seasons greetings (and an announcement)

Happy Holidays from your cranky but benevolent supercomputer blogger. He rests for now but will up the Insolence in the new year.

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Cancer Homeopathy Medicine

Homeopathic quackery vs…a fibroadenoma?

Homepaths think they can treat a fibroadenoma? As a breast cancer surgeon, I am offended and amused at their cluelessness. Truly, homeopathy is The One Quackery To Rule Them All.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Quackery

What is “medical freedom”? Not what “health freedom” advocates claim

Dr. Clayton Baker at the Brownstone Institute attempts to define “medical freedom” by deceptively wrapping it in what on first glance would seem to be unobjectionable principles.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Movies

Shot Dead: A particularly disgusting piece of antivax propaganda

Here we go again with a new antivax propaganda film. Shot Dead is even more vile than pre-pandemic antivax films, full of antivax propaganda and exploitation of dead children.

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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine

Dr. William Makis: Promoting the nonsense that is “turbo cancer”

A prominent oncologist and cancer biologist, Wafik El-Deiry, recently amplified claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause “turbo cancer,” wanting a “civil discourse about science and actual answers that are missing.” Unfortunately, calls for “civil discourse” by an eminent oncologist about unfounded claims only lends undeserved credibility to them. So, once more into the fray…