Comments for Science-Based Medicine

a variety of indications gives us an opportunity to look at that pattern. This is the same evidence we have been reviewing here for years, and so I don’t expect any surprises, still, a thoroug...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/acupuncture-doesnt-work/#comment-5120

subluxation is the essential basis of chiropractic theory. Chiropractors originally believed bones were actually out of place, that these subluxations

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/subluxation-theory-a-belief-system-that-continues-to-define-the-practice-of-chiropractic/#comment-5118

H. (2013). Faith healing: Religious freedom vs. child protection.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/faith-healing-religious-freedom-vs-child-protection/#comment-5116

years before the pandemic, I took issue with John Ioannidis, who made this very argument, railing against how the NIH supposedly favored

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-nih-funding-process-conformity-and-mediocrity/#comment-5098

and score grant applications based on scientific merit are too “conservative” and tend to favor “safe” research that might produce incremental results but nothing groundbreaking.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cancer-research-going-for-the-bunt-versus-swinging-for-the-fences/#comment-5095

guidelines as an unacceptable affront on the godlike autonomy of physicians; or the way the AAPS rejects even the concept of a scientific consensus about anything. Shortly before the pandemic,...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/hostility-towards-scientific-consensus-a-red-flag-identifying-a-crank-or-quack/#comment-2681

supporting standard-of-care science-based treatments over quackery invariably accused of being “pharma shills.” Apparently, “transgender ideology” as a boon to Big Pharma has been a brew...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-pharma-shill-gambit/#comment-2640

“that they convince is transgender generates $1.3 million to pharma.” “Big Pharma” is often invoked by cancer quacks and anti-vaxxers alike, with those supporting standard-of-care scienc...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynski-propaganda-versus-news/#comment-2639

science-denying “documentary” using this technique is The Beautiful Truth, a documentary that promoted the cancer quackery known as Gerson therapy and was framed around the story of a curi...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-not-so-beautiful-untruth-about-the-gerson-therapy-and-cancer-quackery/#comment-2638

are being persecuted and silenced by the scientific “orthodoxy,” in this case, “the Left.” The Pathological Optimist frames anti-vax quack Andrew Wakefield in a similar light; “Burzyns...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-pathological-optimist-more-a-hagiography-of-andrew-wakefield-than-a-documentary-about-him/#comment-2637

Newgent, every child “that they convince is transgender generates $1.3 million to pharma.” “Big Pharma” is often invoked by cancer quacks and anti-vaxxers alike, with those supporting st...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/demonizing-big-pharma/#comment-2636

appearance of vaccine experts like Dr. Paul Offit and various CDC officials in the anti-vax film The Greater Good, all of whom had been unaware of the true nature of the documentary being produc...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-greater-good-pure-unadulterated-anti-vaccine-propagand/#comment-2635

The Oprah-fication of medicine

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-oprah-fication-of-medicine/#comment-1331

almost at the level of logical fallacy. David Gorski has just given it the Latin name, argumentum ad package insert, so it’s now officially a logical fallacy, at least for vaccine

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vani-hari-a-k-a-the-food-babe-finally-responds-to-critics/#comment-1099

as an alternative. There is no published evidence to demonstrate that garlic extracts or curcurmin supplements can prevent heart attacks and stroke, or reduce the risk of death. The data are a b...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/turmeric-tasty-in-curry-questionable-as-medicine/#comment-1096

on fake diseases, infertility, autism, prenatal vitamins, vaccinations, allergies, and even scientific facts themselves. As long as a treatment is viewed as being congruent with the naturopathic...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/naturopathy-vs-science-facts-edition/#comment-1095

and even potentially harmful. In past posts I’ve looked at the naturopathic perspectives on fake diseases, infertility, autism, prenatal vitamins, vaccinations, allergies, and even scientific ...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/naturopathy-vs-science-fake-diseases/#comment-1094

Two of the four authors of the monograph are credentialled medical acupuncturists. Isn’t that a source of bias, if not a conflict of interest? Of course, they are not going to agree with Colqu...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/acupuncture-revisited/#comment-1092

significativi di disinformazione finito sulle testate locali americane è quello che ha riguardato Joseph Mercola, medico osteopata e sostenitore della medicina alternativa, ma soprattutto uno d...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/9-reasons-to-completely-ignore-joseph-mercola-and-natural-news/#comment-1091

life science. DeLong has been active in the anti-vaxx community, writing papers that have been widely discredited for, “poor study design, clear lack of some very basic background knowledge ...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/antivaccine-propaganda-in-baltimore-sun/#comment-1086

HIV/AIDS denialist who panders the royal rife, a cancer “cure.” He is also an intellectually dishonest scoundrel who has neither experience in science nor epidemiology and distorted incidenc...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vaccines-didnt-save-us-intellectual-dishonesty-at-its-most-naked/#comment-1085

Nass – Thinks Ebola is air-borne because she doesn’t even understand what droplets mean, and VAERS can prove causation because she doesn’t understand how it works. She also has

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/conspiracy-theories-and-ebola-virus-transmission/#comment-1084

the adherents of acupuncture and TCM in the “West” know of how the Chinese government retconned the true history of TCM and acupuncture and continues to do so to this day to promote TCM, eve...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/retconning-traditional-chinese-medicine/#comment-1083

medicine integrates into medicine is pseudoscience. Integrative medicine is, in reality, a brand, not a specialty, and it’s a specialty that its own practitioners can’t even seem to define v...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/integrative-medicine-a-brand-not-a-specialty/#comment-1082

Ketogenic diet does not “beat chemo for almost all cancers”

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ketogenic-diets-for-cancer-hype-versus-science/#comment-1081

HIV/AIDS denialist who panders the royal rife, a cancer “cure.” He is also an intellectually dishonest scoundrel who has neither experience in science nor epidemiology and distorted incidenc...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vaccines-didnt-save-us-intellectual-dishonesty-at-its-most-naked/#comment-1080

Nass – Thinks Ebola is air-borne because she doesn’t even understand what droplets mean, and VAERS can prove causation because she doesn’t understand how it works. She also has

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/conspiracy-theories-and-ebola-virus-transmission/#comment-1079

this is great information”, and pass it along as if it’s the Truth. Killing zombie anti-vaccine tropes and memes are just as difficult as killing zombies in real life, or at least, on a TV s...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/another-antivaccine-zombie-meme-sv40-and-cancer-and-polio-oh-my/#comment-1078

one more thing about this annoying “boost the immune system” myth. The immune system is incredibly complex, with an almost infinite number of interactions between

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/boost-your-immune-system/#comment-1077

without any qualifications in epidemiology, Neil Z. Miller and Gary S. Goldman, that tried—and failed—to correlate the number of vaccines in the recommended vaccine schedules of various coun...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vaccine-schedules-and-infant-mortality-a-false-relationship-promoted-by-the-anti-vaccine-movement/#comment-1074