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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Clinical trials of homeopathy are of poor quality and treat self limited diseases. The better the study, the less well homeopathy does. In the best meta analysis to date, it is concluded that homeopathy doesn't work. Duh.
Of all the kinds of alt.med available, Homeopathy has to be the most retarded. And thats saying something. Listen and see why.
An occasional skeptical and sarcastic review of alternative medicine. Today: General approach to human stupidity.
Echinacea. A useful adjunct or a load of crap. What do you think I’m going to say? Crap.
Interferon induced random flu thoughts.
Doing the American way: Making it up.
Saw palmetto does not work and neither does placebo.
Drinking Urine. Ick.
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.
Lying on train tracks to improve your health. No worse than homeopathy.
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.
Quackcast 68. The Dow of Accutane.
