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
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What an article says and what people say it says, and what people say it says it says etc are often not the same thing. I tediously dissect a medical paper and comment of what two commentators say it says. If this kind of description, much less the podcast, is not itself a near death experience, I do not know what is. Copyright 2008, creative commons.
A cursory review of the immune system and then a review of some medical literature that suggests boosting it will cause you to die die die die die die die die die die die die die........ Got carried away. Were all gonna DIE!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry. I panic easily. Copyright 2007, Creative commons license and Pusware LLC.
QuackCast 24. The Yeast Dis Connection
Recycled material from the Scienced Based Medicine Blog. Green and copyright 2008, Pusware LLC.
QuackCast 25. Fungi Shui
Because the Peter Principle rules, millions were spent to demonstate clearly that Vitamin C has minimal effects on the common cold. Someone needs to return his Nobel prize. Copyright 2008, Creative Commons.
A review of Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine ie SCAMS. Copywrite 2008, Pusware LLC under creative commons. This podcasts reviews 2 papers on acupuncture and pain, and one on chiropractic and stroke.
Why vaccines, to quote Mr. Pooh, "Are a Good Thing."
Energy Therapies abound in SCAM’s. Here are two. Reiki and Theraputic Touch. Copyright 2008, Creative Commons.
Chinese medicine is bad for you and bad for the earth.
Quackcast 33. Update on Acupuncture, Chiropractic and Herbal Remedies
How many taradiddles can a single post contain?
A tediously long exposition on but a fraction of the flu woo.
The data to support the use of colloidal silver is less than WMD's in Iraq.
Does the flu vaccine work? Is the earth an oblate spheroid? Yep. Find out how we know (the vaccine, not the earth). Plus 18 flu related taradiddles.
