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Senator Tom Harkin: NCCAM and inviting the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse into the Senate

Yesterday, I wrote about Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) little woo-fest in the Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, which he called Integrative Care: A Pathway to a Healthier Nation. I and a lot of the rest of the medical blogosphere (such as PalMD, Val Jones, and Tufted Titmouse) shook our heads in disbelief […]

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Senator Tom Harkin: Integrating storytelling with news, too?

The Tufted Titmouse explains in a spot-on parody of Senator Harkin’s statement to his Senate panel. I’m tellin’ ya, “integrative” reporting is the wave of the future, just like “integrative” medicine.

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Senator Tom Harkin: NCCAM has “fallen short” because it hasn’t validated enough woo

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) owes me a new irony meter. I’ll explain in a minute, but first you have to know why I even give a rodent’s posterior about Harkin. As you may recall, no single legislator in the U.S. has done more to damage the cause of science- and evidence-based medicine than Tom Harkin. […]