Sysiphus Speaks
Summary: The Podcast of the Society for Science-Based Medicine
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There was a recent survey of 31, 399 Doctors by Medscape that was published as the Physician Lifestyle Report. The survey covers weight, vacation time, marriage status and other lifestyle issues including complementary and alternative pseudo-medicine use . Several observations about the report.
An example of tooth fairy science comes from the introduction of The Association between Yang-Deficient Constitution and Clinical Outcome of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy on People Living with HIV
Neither the the American Physical Society nor the American Chemical Society have lent their expertise communicating ‘science for the general public’ to dispel claims for homeopathy and ‘energy healing’ obvious violations of the laws of science.
Pseudo-Medicines combine and recombine in a continual fantastical dance. Pick any two alternative medicines and someone, somewhere, has combined them into a unique treatment modality.
I searched for 'gloves' and 'acupuncture' in google images. One hit. Is that an image Googlewhack?
Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
When there is no physiologic reason for why an intervention would work, I am more inclined to suspect the weakest of p values is noise, all sound and fury signifying nothing.
Target sells a homeopathic asthma spray for minor asthma symptoms including shortness of breath, wheezing, and tightness in chest.
“This is the first mattress that Weil, the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, has endorsed.”
Medicine advances with the tools of science are used to discover an approximation of truth rather than to confirm pre-existing bias.
State licensing of CAM practitioners helps tremendously in marketing this pseudo-medicine, especially when the product itself is enshrined in state law.
F. Scott Fitzgerald said "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. First, a survey in England about homeopathy found people often held two opposing ideas:
Treating UTI with acupuncture
On children with autism where trying various CAMs
Southern California University of Health Sciences Selected for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ First-Ever Chiropractic Residency Program.
