#Quackery

One vital lesson of the pandemic should be that our society is far too tolerant of pseudo-scientific medical quackery, specifically, and magical thinking, in general. Here's why this is especially

Leonardo Carella

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Now for some poli-sci victory laps. The 'citizen forecast', the favourite model of all quacks based on asking people "who do you think is going to win?", had Trump winning

Brianne's Haunted Soapbox

Are there any symptom-management techniques* that you wish you'd known about much earlier because they're really helpful for you and there are few barriers to trying them?*for any type of

DeadStateTweets

So, it turns out that Chris Cuomo's wife is a health blogger. You may be thinking, "Uh oh." And if you are, you'd be right. In this article she recently

John Scott-Railton

Amazon has a poisonous quackery problem. Time to call it out. #1 "Apricot kernel powder" is anti-cancer quackery.It is converted by your body into... CYANIDE. Make a smoothie & get

March through the first Tuesday in November:OMG HCQ WILL KILL YOU IF YOU TAKE IT!It's quackery.Taking it not only won't help, it will likely hurt you.==================Now: Hey, HCQ combined zpac

1) David Gorski's nasty comment to me warrants an explanation. Some 3 decades ago I wrote an encyclopedic expose of quackery published by Prometheus Books & edited by pioneer quack

You Dont FQQl Me ❤️🇳🇿🥝

Medical villain Morris Fishbein. Born in 1889 Fishbein was very much noted for pushing out natural healing and bringing in a medical tyranny in the late 1920s. #morrisfishbien #TheGreatAwakening Fishbein

William Pittman

The issues with Dr. Conley are not a result of him being a Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) rather than a Doctor of Medicine (MD). The DO _did_ begin life as

Sushil Pandit🇮🇳.

Why mere literacy?Are their problems because of inability to read, write and count?Osama was an engineer and Jinnah a barristerZakir Naik and Ayman al Zawahiri are doctors.Syed Shahabuddin who led

Varun C. MD, DM

Just leaving this here:AYUSH 64 is an old formulation that was first tried in malaria and failed to show benefit compared to standard treatment. It was commercialised in 2014 by

25th Sept, 2020, will be marked as the day the Medical Council of India, established in 1934 finally got buried. The process had started sometime back but the Gazette Notification

Compare how Britannica and Wikipedia introduce the traditional system of Indian medicine called Ayerveda.Britannica is respectful.Wikipedia has no fewer than four dismissive epithets in the first paragraph: "quackery," "pseud

Victoria Freeman

Dangerous quackery. Assuming you can fix serious medical problems which can cause painful periods & hormonal mood swings with diet & exercise just leads to greater morbidity. If you want

This catastrophe #COVIDSecondWaveInIndia didn't happen in a month.Bjp bhakts allowed this to happen, slowly & steadily 1. #demonitisation You knew DeMo broke back of our economy, brought unimaginable unemployment, but

1I followed @FitTuber advise and got all these #Ayurveda medicines which he outright claimed are '#safer', ''#effective' than conventional prescription drugs for day to day use. These will be tested