Quoth the antivaxer: “ Vaccination is a religion. ” Quoth Orac: “ Nice projection, there. ”
Levi Quackenboss is one of the more oblivious and obtuse antivaxers out there. She demonstrates this again with a clumsy post comparing vaccination to religion.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - December 1, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Quackery contamination featured Levi Quackenboss religion ritual purification vaccines Source Type: blogs
Christopher Exley: Using bad science to demonize aluminum adjuvants in vaccines
Move over, Christopher Shaw, there's a new antivaccine scientist dedicated to demonizing aluminum adjuvants in town. His name is Christopher Exley. He's got a fluorescence microscope, and he's not afraid to use it to demonize aluminum.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 29, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Pseudoscience aluminum brain Christopher Exley featured fluorescence microscopy lumogallion Oxford Brain Bank transversely heated atomic absorption spectroscopy vaccines Source Type: blogs
The Nobel Disease strikes again: Luc Montagnier goes full antivax, with a little help from Henri Joyeux
"Nobel disease" is a term designed to describe whatever it is that drives some Nobel laureates to embrace pseudoscience or quackery later in their careers. One of its most prominent victims, Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, recently demonstrated that he's still suffering from Nobel disease when he laid down a barrage of antivaccine pseudoscience in Paris earlier this month.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 28, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Autism Pseudoscience Quackery adjuvant aluminum Andrew Wakefield Brigitte Autran featured Henri Joyeux Luc Montagnier Nobel Disease Pierre and Marie Curie Faculty of Medicine sids sudden infant death syndro Source Type: blogs
Defining “ integrative oncology ” and failing
Earlier this month, the Society for Integrative Oncology published an article attempting to define what “integrative oncology” is. The definition, when it isn’t totally vague, ignores the pseudoscience at the heart of integrative oncology and medicine.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 27, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Integrative medicine Quackery featured integrative oncology society for integrative oncology Source Type: blogs
Yet another clickbait testimonial manipulates emotions to make cancer quackery appear effective
Cancer quackery, particularly the false hope it engenders in cancer patients, infuriates me. Earlier this week The Sun published an article suggesting that a form of quackery called the Berkson protocol allowed a mother with metastatic pancreatic cancer to survive unexpectedly long enough to see her daughter married. It almost certainly did nothing of the sort.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 24, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Popular culture Quackery ALA-LDN protocol alpha-lipoic acid alternative cancer cures Arthur Berkson Berkson protocol Burton Berkson featured low dose naltrexone pancreatic cancer testimonial Source Type: blogs
Did a gadolinium contrast agent used for MRIs “ poison ” Chuck Norris ’ wife Gena?
Earlier this month, Chuck Norris and his wife Gena filed a lawsuit against manufacturers of MRI contrast agents, claiming that the gadolinium in them had "poisoned" Gena. But did it? The evidence linking gadolinium with the symptoms Gena Norris suffered is, even under the most generous interpretation, quite shaky, and there is no doubt that she has been victimized by quacks.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 22, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Bruce Fong Chuck Norris featured gadolinium gadolinium-based contrast agent GBCA Gena Norris magnetic resonance imaging MRI nephrogenic fibrosing dermo Source Type: blogs
The FDA cracks down on quack stem cell clinics … or does it?
Last week, the FDA released final regulatory guidance regarding freestanding stem cell clinics. The new regulatory framework appears custom-made to allow the FDA to crack down on quack stem cell clinics. But will it?
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 21, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery adipose-derived stem cells clinical trials fda featured Scott Gottlieb Source Type: blogs
Why do some breast cancer patients decline chemotherapy and radiation?
Adjuvant therapy after surgery, such as chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, and radiation therapy, has contributed to a 39% decrease in breast cancer mortality since 1989. Unfortunately, a significant number of women decline evidence-based adjuvant therapy. A recent study suggests that distrust of the medical system plays a significant role in such refusal.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 20, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery adjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy radiation therapy Source Type: blogs
Dr. David Brownstein fought Shingrix, and Shingrix won
Dr. David Brownstein is a "holistic" family practice physician in my area. Consistent with being "holistic," he is antivaccine to the core. That's why he's unhappy with the recent CDC recommendation that adults over 50 receive the new shingles vaccine. He thinks he's found a clever argument to show it doesn't work. Unfortunately, his argument only reveals his bias and misunderstanding.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 17, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Homeopathy Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking chickenpox clinical trial David Brownstein GlaxoSmithKline number needed to treat ozone Peter Lipson shingles Shingrix vaccines va Source Type: blogs
The annals of “I’m not antivaccine,” part 26: “ No, I ’ m not an ‘ vaccine safety ’ advocate ”
Many are the antivaxers who claim they aren't antivaccine. Few are the antivaxers who are honest enough to openly proclaim they are antivaccine.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 16, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense History Medicine Pseudoscience Helsinki Declaration informed consent Jake Crosby Laura Hayes misinformed consent Nuremberg Code vaccines Source Type: blogs
The annals of “I’m not antivaccine,” part 26: Hating on those who won ’ t let their antivax freak flag fly high
Many are the antivaxers who claim they aren't antivaccine. Few are the antivaxers who are honest enough to openly proclaim they are antivaccine.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 16, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery antivaccine tropes featured Jake Crosby Laura Hayes vaccines Source Type: blogs
Charlie Goldsmith: A new celebrity quack arises, enabled by TLC
Two years ago, I took note of an "energy healer" named Charlie Goldsmith and an incredibly poor "clinical trial" being touted as evidence of his healing abilities. It now turns out that Goldsmith is following a trail blazed by celebrity psychic Tyler Henry and has his own TV show on TLC. His claims are no more plausible or supported by evidence now than they were then.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 15, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Medicine Physics Quackery energy healing featured healing touch Reiki therapeutic touch TLC Tyler Henry Source Type: blogs
Do angioplasties and coronary stenting improve symptoms in patients with angina?
Last week, the results of ORBITA were published. This clinical trial tested coronary angioplasty and stenting versus optimal medical management in patients with single-vessel coronary artery disease. It was a resoundingly negative trial, meaning that adding stenting to drug management didn’t result in detectable clinical improvement. What was distinctive about this trial is that it used a sham procedure (i.e., placebo) control, which few trials testing surgery or a procedure use. The results of ORBITA emphasize how important sham procedure controls are, whenever they can be ethically used, and how resistant physicians ca...
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 13, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Medicine angina angioplasty coronary artery bypass graft ORBITA percutaneous coronary intervention stent Source Type: blogs
The Mayor of Algonac responds to a hepatitis A outbreak by promoting antivaccine pseudoscience
Southeast Michigan is currently in the midst of a hepatitis A outbreak that started in August 2016. In Algonac, a small town in the Thumb region, the mayor decided to help a restaurant whose business suffered when one of its new staff members under training caught hepatitis A. Unfortunately, the form that help took was to host an antivaccine propaganda meeting.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 10, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Algonac Algonac Flaming Grill Eileen Tesch featured hepatitis A Michigan Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Tara Nikolao Source Type: blogs
“ Vaccine Awareness Week, ” misinformed consent, and, of course, Nazis and eugenics
Orac is back, and what does he encounter upon his return? Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the Orwellian-named antivaccine propaganda organization, the National Vaccine Information Center, pontificating about "informed consent" and vaccines. What she really means is misinformed consent to refuse vaccines, as in consent based on misinformation, pseudoscience, and fear mongering about vaccines. Naturally, she can't resist bringing in Nazis as well.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - November 8, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Pseudoscience Quackery Barbara Loe Fisher eugenics featured informed consent misinformed consent National Vaccine Information Center Nazi Nuremberg Code Vaccine Awareness Week Source Type: blogs
