QuackCast show

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.

Podcasts:

 Quackcast 103. The Light Fantastical | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

UV irradiation of blood: more nonsense.

 Quackcast 102: More Boosting. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

More on the nonexistence of immune system boosting.

 Quackcast 101: I never meta analysis I like | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

More studies that, upon careful evaluation, fail to show acupuncture is effective.

 Quackcast 100: Protect Yourself | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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?

 Quackcast 99. Guiding Lights | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown
 Quackcast 98. Low Level Lasers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown
 Quackcast 97. Jurassic Farce | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Fear of gay mutant mosquitos.

 Quackcast 96. Journal Club | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Studies that have every error known should not call themselves ground breaking unless it concerns shovels.

 Quackcast 95. The Spirit of St. Louis Renault | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The Huff Po is shocked to find gambling is going on.

 Quackcast 94. Vital Signs. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Buteyko breathing: Bass Awkwards.

 QuackCast 9. Lies, Damn Lies and the use of alt med | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

34% to 42% of Americans use alternative medicine each year. True? Of course not. See how data is misrepresented to support nonsense.

 QuackCast 8. Acupuncture's Efficacy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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.

 QuackCast 7. Theory of Acupuncture | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The theory of acupuncture is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality. It has no biologic or physiologic plausibility.

 QuackCast 6. Prayer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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.

 QuackCast 5. Placebo Effect | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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.

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