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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Podcasts:
The Cochrane reviews: goofy and disingenuous.
Announcing the Society for Science-Based Medicine
More lousy acupuncture studies mis-interpreted.
Garbage in Garbage out his how you demonstrate acupuncture efficacy.
More humor from the Altlantic Monthly, except they were not trying to be funny.
Why we do what we do.
Weirdness in the world of microbiology and infectious diseases.
p of 0.05 is not so significant after all
A Mike Adams impersonator writes for SI
Echinacea. A useful adjunct or a load of crap. What do you think I’m going to say? Crap.
An occasional skeptical and sarcastic review of alternative medicine. Today: General approach to human stupidity.
Of all the kinds of alt.med available, Homeopathy has to be the most retarded. And thats saying something. Listen and see why.
A review of the medical literature suggests that prayer is not an efficacious therapeutic intervention for medical illnesses. And I am almost certainly going to h e double toothpicks, if you know what I mean.
Alt.med effects are often attributed to the placebo effect. Turns out the placebo effect does not exist. So when the effect of alt.med is equal to placebo effect, it is the same as saying it is equal to nothing. How true, how true.
Clinical trials of homeopathy are of poor quality and treat self limited diseases. The better the study, the less well homeopathy does. In the best meta analysis to date, it is concluded that homeopathy doesn't work. Duh.
