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:
UV irradiation of blood: more nonsense.
More on the nonexistence of immune system boosting.
More studies that, upon careful evaluation, fail to show acupuncture is effective.
If your health care provider is not vaccinated against influenza, they might be a dumb ass. You want dumb ass involved in your health care?
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N rays return.
Fear of gay mutant mosquitos.
Studies that have every error known should not call themselves ground breaking unless it concerns shovels.
The Huff Po is shocked to find gambling is going on.
Buteyko breathing: Bass Awkwards.
34% to 42% of Americans use alternative medicine each year. True? Of course not. See how data is misrepresented to support nonsense.
The efficacy of acupuncture is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality. It doesn't work and has the potential to cause real harm. copyright 2006 Mark Crislip Creative Commons.
The theory of acupuncture is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality. It has no biologic or physiologic plausibility.
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.
