"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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Torturing rats in the name of acupuncture pseudoscience

Post author By Orac
Post date July 23, 2015
57 Comments on Torturing rats in the name of acupuncture pseudoscience

What did this poor rat ever do to the scientist?

Back when I started this blog, I hadn’t yet become aware of the phenomenon known as quackademic medicine. This phenomenon, as you recall, is the infiltration of academic medical institutions that should be bastions of science- and evidence-based medicine by outright quackery. In quackademic medicine, we see Very Respectable Academic Physicians and Scientists wasting their […]

Tags acupuncture, electroacupuncture, Georgetown University, laboratory, rats, stress

Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

“Autism-induced” breast cancer

Post author By Orac
Post date November 7, 2014
118 Comments on “Autism-induced” breast cancer

Gayle DeLong has been diagnosed with what she refers to as “autism-induced” breast cancer.” She’s even given it an abbreviation, AIBC. Unfortunately, as you might be able to tell by the name she’s given her breast cancer, she is also showing signs of falling into the same errors in thinking with respect to her breast […]

Tags alternative cancer cures, antivaccine, autism-induced breast cancer, breast cancer, chemotherapy, Gayle DeLong, local recurrence, radiation therapy, stress, surgery, survival, Tamoxifen, testimonials, triple negative breast cancer, vaccines

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