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:
Diagnostic error: a problem for medicine, a defining characteristic of SCAM.
Most SCAM are the medical equal of a curse removal.
Naturopaths and chiropractors lack the education, the training, and the understanding of medicine and neurology to diagnose and treat concussion. Their therapies are at best useless and can result in strokes in one of our most vulnerable populations, children. Perfect for taking care of childhood concussion. Not.
Chiropractic loves the studies that prove nothing about whether snapping a neck like a hanging causes a stroke.
IRBs keep approving unethical SCAM trials
The Oregon legislature has declared that naturopaths are primary care providers. Next up, pi = 3.14.
To decrease narcotic use, Oregon is going to turn to magic.
Looks good, does nothing,
Oregon Health & Sciences University inches towards becoming Oregon Health & Pseudo-Sciences University
Worst Homeopathy Study. Ever.
Guidelines based on very poor quality evidence. We call that belief.
A look at some ND web sitea
Some more awful and unethical acupuncture studies.
An acupuncturist has questions. I try and answer.
Some recent acupuncture articles evaluated.
