"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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The Triumph of New Age Medicine, part deux, courtesy of The Atlantic

Post author By Orac
Post date July 6, 2015
243 Comments on The Triumph of New Age Medicine, part deux, courtesy of The Atlantic

There can be no doubt that, when it comes to medicine, The Atlantic has an enormous blind spot. Under the guise of being seemingly “skeptical,” the magazine has, over the last few years, published some truly atrocious articles about medicine. I first noticed this during the H1N1 pandemic, when The Atlantic published an article lionizing […]

Tags alternative medicine, integrative medicine, Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NCCAM, NCCIH, quackery, The Atlantic

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The Food Babe: “There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever”

Post author By Orac
Post date February 12, 2015
198 Comments on The Food Babe: “There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever”

It’s been a while since I’ve taken notice of Vani Hari, a.k.a. The Food Babe, the misguided “food safety” activist who sees chemicals, chemicals, chemicals everywhere and raises fears about them all, especially the ones that she can’t pronounce. The first time I took any significant notice of her was about a year ago, when […]

Tags azodicarbonamide, beer, BHT, genetically modified food, GMO, isinglass, James Hamblin, Kevin Folta, Mehmet Oz, pseudoscience, quackery, robots.txt, SEO, The Atlantic, The Food Babe, The Food Babe Way, Vani Hari, yoga mat chemical

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