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.
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- Artist: Mark Crislip
Podcasts:
The solution to US health care does not lie in adding magic.
Acupuncture Today. “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!” It is because they LAc an understanding of medicine.
Is intravenous vitamin C helpful in sepsis? I hope so, but past experience render me skeptical.
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.
Disciplinary actions against ND’s in Oregon by the Board. How to find them and what they are.
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.
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.
To summarize: The truth of blue light? Who cares?
An undate on a popular, yet worthless, pseudo-medicine.
There is no difference between a psychic scam and a pseudo-medical SCAM.
That there is a thing that can be called acupuncture.
Is chronic fatigue a hibernation state?
The many ways cancer and infection interact.
When should I get the influenza vaccine?
The middle ages lives on.