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QuackCast

Summary: A review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. Thats not right. That should be Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. SCAM's. Winner in 2009, 2010, and 2011 of The People's Choice Podcast Awards for Best Health Podcast. A side project of Pusware LLC, home of the Infectious DIsease Compendium: A Persiflagers Guide, your uber hyperlinked guide to Infectious Disease, the Persiflagers Infectious Disease Puscast and a Gobbet o' Pus.

Podcasts:

 Quackcast 143: More Dialogs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The solution to US health care does not lie in adding magic.

 Quackcast 210: Treating the Terrain of Chronic Sinus Infections. A LAc of understanding. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Acupuncture Today. “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!” It is because they LAc an understanding of medicine.

 Quackcast 211: Vitamin C and Sepsis. All Sound and Fury? Much Ado About Nothing? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Is intravenous vitamin C helpful in sepsis? I hope so, but past experience render me skeptical.

 Quackcast 206: Chinese BioMedical Research-Sturgeon’s Law In Action | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A Chinese government investigation has found that 80%, yes eighty percent, of Chinese biomedical research is fabricated. I bet that is an underestimate for Traditional Chinese Pseudo-Medicine.

 Quackcast 207: Board Disciplinary Actions. What Naturopaths Really Do Not Want You To Know | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Disciplinary actions against ND’s in Oregon by the Board. How to find them and what they are.

 Quackcast 208: Spinal Manipulation for Back and Neck Pain: Does It Work? Annotated. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Spinal Manipulation for Back and Neck Pain: Does It Work? You would think it does if you read the article but not if you actually read the literature.

 Quackcast 209: Influenza Vaccine and Health Care Workers. More than one way to skin a literature | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

There are many ways to apply the medical literature. For me it starts with the premise that health care workers may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

 Quackcast 202: Blue Light. Special? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

To summarize: The truth of blue light? Who cares?

 Quackcast 203: Reiki and Therapeutic Touch. Compare and Contrast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

An undate on a popular, yet worthless, pseudo-medicine.

 Quackcast 204: It’s Hard Out There for a Psychic | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

There is no difference between a psychic scam and a pseudo-medical SCAM.

 Quackcast 205: Acupuncture’s Big Myth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

That there is a thing that can be called acupuncture.

 Quackcast 199: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease Speculation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Is chronic fatigue a hibernation state?

 Quackcast 200: Infectious Diseases and Cancer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The many ways cancer and infection interact.

 Quackcast 201: When should I get the influenza vaccine? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

When should I get the influenza vaccine?

 Quackcast 198. Leech Therapy. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The middle ages lives on.

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