QuackCast

Update on probiotics.

A variety of studies reviewed.

A bit on measles and flu.

Bias determines conclusions.

Comparing the approach of the IDSA with ILADS. Who will reign supreme?

Friends, FDA, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Homeopathy, not to praise it. The evil that homeopaths do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Homeopathy. The noble Ullman Hath told you homeopathy was effective: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Homeopathy answer’d it. Here, under leave of Ullman and the rest– For Ullman is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Homeopathy’s funeral. It was my nostrum, faithless and worthless to me: But Ullman says it was effective; And Ullman is an honourable man. He hath brought many provings home to HPUS Whose prescriptions did the general coffers fill: Did this in Homeopathy seem effective? When that the ill have died, Homeopathy hath wept: Efficacy should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Ullman says it was effective; And Ullman is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Cochrane I thrice presented Homeopathy a meta-analysis, Which he did thrice refuse: was this efficacy? Yet Ullman says it was effective; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Ullman spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Sort of.

There is always evidence. It just may stink on ice.

More on on acupuncture 'works'.

Testimony in favor of protecting 'creative' lyme doctors.

Hobbit condoms inflated in the nose.

A culture-bound syndrome?

How do people justify offering nonsense?

You Docs and acupuncture: do they read the literature?

More on the nature of the placebo effect

So many kinds of acupuncture. Which one is the chosen one?