Quackery

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• Alternative Medicine’s Flawed Reasoning: The One True Cause of All Disease

  
  Better Health — Authority: 545
  Chiropractors, homeopaths, naturopaths, acupuncturists, and other alternative medicine practitioners constantly criticize mainstream medicine for “only treating the symptoms,” while alternative medicine allegedly treats “the underlying causes” of disease. Nope. Not true. Exactly backwards. Think about it. ...
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• Its Called "The NewAge" (And It Better Be Dead)

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 135
  "Were still weeks away from the end of 09, but its not too early to pass judgment. Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want — just give thanks that it is nearly over." -- Andy Serwer , calling the last 10 years exactly what ...
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• Lindy’s Yuletide special

  
  DC's Improbable Science — Authority: 109
    Snow on December 18th                             Roaring fire Lindy contributes acute comments regularly here.  She is also an accomplished musician.  She has kindly allowed me to post here four of her re-written carols. Adam lay ybounden   |  Hark the Herald   |  ...
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• Rep. Randy Forbes’s hero (R-Va): a Mass Murderer

  
  blueollie — Authority: 137
  Joshua 6:20 20 2 As the horns blew, the people began to shout. When they heard the signal horn, they raised a tremendous shout. The wall collapsed, and the people stormed the city in a frontal attack and took it. 21 They observed the ban by putting to the sword all living creatures in the city: men and ...
  3 days ago

• Senator Coburn: people ought to pray that someone can’t make tonight’s vote

  
  blueollie — Authority: 137
  Now exactly why are we supposed to take people who think like this seriously?
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• Strength of Belief

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 518
  I was thinking about the placebo effect the other day, and it reminded me of this excellent article on the matter at Wired Magazine . The article points out that: It’s not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It’s as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger. And that seems to be ...
  4 days ago

• Progress! India’s most eminent academic economist (finally) praises economics!

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy is happy to find, as the year 2009 AD draws to a close, India’s most eminent academic economist offer today published praise for works of Adam Smith, FH Knight, JR Hicks, PA Samuelson & other “mainstream” or “orthodox” economists — in contrast to his own, he says, ...
  6 days ago

• Climate Change Alarmism: The real battle is against corruption, pollution, deforestation, energy waste etc

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  Last year I wrote but happened not to publish this brief article which may be relevant today. Climate Change Alarmism: The real battle is against corruption, pollution, deforestation, energy waste etc Subroto Roy May 28 2008 Like the AIDS epidemic that never was, “climate change” is on its way to becoming the ...
  1 week ago

• Theyll Kill You Before Theyll Quit (Really)

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 135
  "It’s absurd – and dangerous too – that every person reading this article could set themselves up tomorrow as a practitioner of herbal medicine. They could gain access to powerful herbs such as belladonna and ephedra, and give those to patients without any training or quality control at all. That has to stop." ...
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• Chiropractors Admit Their Treatments Are Based On False And Outdated Beliefs

  
  Better Health — Authority: 545
  An article written by 4 chiropractors and published on December 2, 2009 in the journal Chiropractic and Osteopathy may have sounded the death knell for chiropractic. The chiropractic subluxation is the essential basis of chiropractic theory. A true subluxation is a partial dislocation: chiropractors originally ...
  1 week ago

• Oral Roberts dead at 91 – but don’t lament ’cause he’ll be back to rule the world!

  
  The Freethinker — Authority: 546
  BILLIONAIRE televangelist Oral Roberts this week fell off the perch aged 91 – but his passing has generated a great deal more derision than sadness. Big hair is mandatory for successful televangelism, as Oral Roberts demonstrates The life of the preposterous old fraud was, to my mind, best summed on Gawker.com ...
  1 week ago

• Bumglos Anti-Obesity Vaccine. Yours via eBay for just $150.

  
  Weighty Matters — Authority: 127
  This just popped up on my eBay tracker and it was too stupid, I mean good, not to share. A user aptly named "Bumglo" has put up an "Anti-obesity vaccine" called " Sculptural Metabolize " that apparently will help you " Loss weight ". This is a very special vaccine because unlike actual vaccines, the vial being sold ...
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• 15 December 09 (pre grading)

  
  blueollie — Authority: 137
  Workout notes Something over lunch. Humor/social. I enjoy reading the Legal Satrycon . Being able to read briefs such as this is why . I just about peed in my pants from laughter. Local/Science PZ Myers points out that someone is collecting data about interest in a creationist museum in Peoria, IL. ...
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• I need the laugh (grading….14 December 09)

  
  blueollie — Authority: 137
  Stupid people cause much of the misery in this world (though not all of it). So I’ll have a laugh at their expense: 1. PZ Myers on Fox News and Huffington Post : Fox News brought on a naturopath to peddle a random bit of nonsense, that coffee makes you fat. Any drug that tinkers with your metabolism can have ...
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• Canadian Pediatric Society Position Statement: Chiropractic care for children: Controversies and issues

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 125
  CPS Position Statements: Chiropractic care for children: Controversies and issues . The statement reads in part: Parents should be made aware that there is a lack of substantiated evidence for the theory of subluxated vertebrae as the causality for illness in children, and x-rays taken for this purpose expose the ...
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• Free As A Bird (The Dodo)

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 135
  Ever since the day I discovered my liberal (and now ex) wife had been cavorting with NewAge cultists and even had an affair with one, and, later, had joined her NewAge quack lover in killing three people - including my mother-in-law - the subjects of NewAge "spirituality", cultism, delusional thinking, groupthink, ...
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• Yogurt Enemas, Rolfing and Astral Healing for All!

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 672
  Its hardly news that the Huffington Post publishes a lot of garbage, but the sites affectionate regard for alternative medicine is really hard to take. Yesterday, someone named Andrea Sullivan gobbled bandwidth by arguing that naturopathy -- your one-stop superstore for medical quackery -- should receive serious ...
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• Essay: When Reporters Equate Statements Objective Fact with Mere Lay Opinions, We All Lose

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 125
  You shouldnt miss this opinon piece from a writer (and parent of a child with autism) Why do media report the other side of scientific fact? | Commentary | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ . Well, reporters, what do you have to say for yourselves? Why do you allow unscientific people to spout their harebrained schemes ...
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• Chiropractic & "Subluxations" -- Is The Model Fatally Flawed? Evidence Suggests Yes

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 125
  Ive been working on a suite of posts on the role (specifically, the uselessness)  of chiropractic in the management of pediatric academic challenges (specifically, ADHD and specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia and dyscalculia). But heres a fundamental problem: The chiropractic subluxation is the ...
  1 week ago

• Belief in spooks, the ‘evil eye’ and astrology rides high among Americans

  
  The Freethinker — Authority: 546
  A NEW poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in the US reveals a disturbingly high level of belief in supernatural hogwash. Although most Americans profess to be Christian and many are devout, it hasn’t prevented some members of the flock from believing in astrology, reincarnation or the ability of ...
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