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
Podcasts:
More on how CAM = Placebo. Placebo = nothing. Therefore CAM = Nothing.
SCAM proponents have a different understanding of reality. See Dr. Chopra's writings as the archetype.
Not the bee all and end all, it has its uses in wound care.
Lying on train tracks to improve your health. No worse than homeopathy.
When it comes to CAM, PBS means Produces Bull Stuff (I do not want to get an explicit tag).
Watch as a formally good Journal publishes amateur garbage on TCM and the ‘treatment’ of flu.
Drinking Urine. Ick.
Saw palmetto does not work and neither does placebo.
Doing the American way: Making it up.
Interferon induced random flu thoughts.
A bit of medicine, a bit of acupuncture, a bit of staring.
Dr. Oz approved. Insert snort of derision.
I keep yammering on about the worthless placebo. Oh well, It’s my podcast.
A race to the bottom for silliness.
When major medical institutions offer SCAM.