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 4. Homeopathy Clinical Trials | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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.

 QuackCast 3. Homeopathic Theory | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Of all the kinds of alt.med available, Homeopathy has to be the most retarded. And thats saying something. Listen and see why.

 QuackCast 1. Opening Salvo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

An occasional skeptical and sarcastic review of alternative medicine. Today: General approach to human stupidity.

 QuackCast 2. Echinacea | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Echinacea. A useful adjunct or a load of crap. What do you think I’m going to say? Crap.

 Quackcast 78. Random Flu Thoughts. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Interferon induced random flu thoughts.

 Quackcast 77. Alternative vaccination. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Doing the American way: Making it up.

 Quackcast 76. The Prostrate Placebo. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Saw palmetto does not work and neither does placebo.

 Quackcast 75. Recycle. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown
 Quackcast 74. Gullible George. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

When it comes to CAM, PBS means Produces Bull Stuff (I do not want to get an explicit tag).

 Quackcast 73. The Annals of Internal Medicine Qualifies for Fail Blog. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Watch as a formally good Journal publishes amateur garbage on TCM and the ‘treatment’ of flu.

 Quackcast 72. Train Therapy. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Lying on train tracks to improve your health. No worse than homeopathy.

 Quackcast 71. CAM. The Beer Goggles of Medicine. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

More on how CAM = Placebo. Placebo = nothing. Therefore CAM = Nothing.

 Quackcast 70. SOS DD. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

SCAM proponents have a different understanding of reality. See Dr. Chopra's writings as the archetype.

 Quackcast 69. Honey. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Not the bee all and end all, it has its uses in wound care.

 Quackcast 68. The Dow of Accutane. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Quackcast 68. The Dow of Accutane.

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