"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).

Tag: Supreme Court

What do licensing naturopaths and banning abortion have in common?

Post author By Orac
Post date July 6, 2022
33 Comments on What do licensing naturopaths and banning abortion have in common?

SCOTUS and abortion — The six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court have just pulled off the ultimate exercise of judicial alchemy that is a direct assault on science-based medicine in reproductive health care.

The Supreme Court’s striking down Roe v. Wade and the subsequent abortion bans it enabled remind me very much of naturopathic licensure laws. They’re both based on pseudoscience and ideology.

Tags abortion, breast cancer, Chiropractic, COVID-19, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, licensure, naturopathy, quackery, Supreme Court

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Taking a vaccine injury case to the Supreme Court

Post author By Orac
Post date March 9, 2010
57 Comments on Taking a vaccine injury case to the Supreme Court

I haven’t written much about this before, at least not in this context, but vaccine scares are nothing new, nor is execrably fear mongering journalism about vaccines. Those of you who read Paul Offit’s Autism’s False Prophets or Arthur Allen’s Vaccine probably know about a particularly egregious example of both that occurred in the early […]

Tags National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, NCVIA, Special Masters, Supreme Court, Vaccine Court, vaccines

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