Sysiphus Speaks

“Unfortunately, this abandonment never seems to occur,” they wrote in their paper. “Acupuncture and reiki remain widely practised and even embraced at academic institutions, and even homeopathy continued to be practised despite clinical trials that demonstrate effects indistinguishable from placebo effects.”

As I have mentioned before, there appear to be as many styles of acupuncture coming out of China as there are practitioners. Each has a signature move. For example, there is Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture (WAA). Does this style reign supreme?

A while back I mentioned a study that wasn't a study by the British Chiropractor Association that suggested that texting could kill you.

Because of TCPM, not only is Totoaba macdonaldi, the fish with the bladder of gold, being fished to extinction, but so is a porpoise, the vaquita, (Phocoena sinus) found only in Mexico’s Gulf of California.

It is safe to say that acupunctures do nothing beyond placebo. Most studies suggest that the main factors in having a positive effect for pain from acupunctures is thinking you received acupuncture and believing you will have an effect from the intervention. Acupunctures are at their core medical theater.

I found the following quote at Chiropractic care can treat more than just bad backs (FYI. Chiropractic can't): Luse references a study published in The Medical Times authored by Dr. Henry Windsor (sic), M.D. that showcases the correlation of spinal health to overall wellness. Windsor dissected 75 human cadavers to investigate their causes of death. The study showed that 138 of the 139 diseases of the internal organs that were present were in connection to the misalignments of the vertebrae.

Another food fight in the courtroom has been halted, at least temporarily, by a judge's preliminary approval of a settlement agreement in several class actions. This time the product is Vitaminwater, from the Coca-Cola company.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. I do not think Shakespeare was referring to acupuncture, but there appears to be an infinite variety of the intervention. I came across Clinical randomized controlled trials of acupoint catgut-embedding for simple obesity: a meta-analysis in my feeds. Catgut embedding? Yep

Some Chiropractors want to become primary care providers. Bad idea.

How to Make Your Own Ebola Remedy

On August 5th, the FDA began enforcement of a rule promulgated last year defining the term "gluten free." The threshold for the use of the claim will be 20 parts per million, which means that, unless a packaged food meets that standard, it can't be labeled "gluten free" or similar terms, such as "no gluten" and "without gluten."

The preponderance of data points to CMT as a risk for dissection and stroke and there is certainly plausibility for what is fortunately a rare event.

Homeopaths have treatments for chikungunya, although they lack their usual inability to understand the difficulties in assigning causality to events when treating a process that by its nature is self-limited.

And which of the top 17 US hospitals offer some sort of fantasy based pseudo-medcine? All of them. Click the links to see. At least UMPC is honest enough to offer it at the Shadyside location. Inadvertent truth in advertising?

At their heart all pseudo-medical therapies are unethical.