Black Market Anti-virals
New antivirals for COVID have rapidly led to a black market in dubious knock-offs. The post Black Market Anti-virals first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
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View ArticleQuack Quack
Joe Schwarcz's new book Quack Quack is an informative and entertaining look at quackery and pseudoscience past and present. A delightful read. The post Quack Quack first appeared on Science-Based...
View ArticleThe New Year’s detox secret THEY don’t want you to know about
The dirty secret about detoxification and cleanses. The post The New Year’s detox secret THEY don’t want you to know about first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
View ArticleIvermectin is now fast becoming the new MMS
A recent VICE story described a Telegram channel devoted to promoting veterinary ivermectin to treat autism. It has echoes of autism quackery going back at least to the use of MMS (a kind of bleach) to...
View ArticlePeddling Misinformation About Diet and Cancer
Selling dubious nutrition products often involve attacking, and suing, your critics. The post Peddling Misinformation About Diet and Cancer first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
View ArticleProtocolKills.com: Repackaging an old narrative about conventional medicine...
Quacks claim that medicine, not the disease, kills, with their nostrums as the cure. ProtocolKills.com shows that victims and their families are often their best spokespeople because they are so...
View ArticleProtocolKills.com: Misinformed refusal on steroids
Back in the day, I used to refer to something I dubbed "misinformed refusal," a term that refers to how antivaxxers had weaponized "informed consent" by inverting it to frighten parents against...
View ArticleRepurposed to Radical: How drug repurposing created a global right-wing...
A condensed timeline of the events, people, and far-right global politics that repurposed science and medicine to promote fake miracle cures for COVID-19 and spread deadly disinformation with a focus...
View ArticleNo evidence IV vitamin drips can treat infertility
There is no evidence IV vitamin drips can help treat infertility The post No evidence IV vitamin drips can treat infertility first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
View ArticleWhen an antivax physician “dies suddenly”: The case of Dr. Rashid Buttar
Last month, Dr. Rashid Buttar, a prominent antivax "integrative medicine" practitioner, died suddenly. Because he hadn't been vaccinated, antivaxxers struggled mightily to reconcile his death with...
View Article“Base Spike Detox” and Signature Spike Support Formulas: Nattokinase quackery...
Dr. Peter McCullough and a number of "anti-COVID-19 vaccine" antivaxxers out there has pivoted to quackery to "detox" from the supposedly malign effects of COVID-19 vaccines. Everything old is new...
View ArticleCOVID-19 has exposed the toothlessness of state medical boards
A report in The Washington Post last week revealed just how badly state medical boards have been failing when dealing with physicians spreading COVID-19 misinformation and using quackery to prevent and...
View ArticleWhat’s really in that sports supplement?
A new analysis of sports supplements shows that you cannot trust the label to tell you what's actually in the bottle. The post What’s really in that sports supplement? first appeared on Science-Based...
View ArticleThe American Board of Internal Medicine finally acts against two...
Last week, I wrote about how COVID-19 has exposed the toothlessness of state medical boards. Last week, the American Board of Internal Medicine announced that it was going to permanently revoke the...
View ArticleThe Ohio State Medical Board has finally suspended the medical license of...
Last week, the Ohio State Medical Board suspended the medical license of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, a longtime antivax quack. The only question is: What took them so long, and why did it take the pandemic...
View ArticleExamining COVID-19 misinformation propagated by US physicians
A new paper documents COVID-19 medical misinformation shared by US physicians on social media The post Examining COVID-19 misinformation propagated by US physicians first appeared on Science-Based...
View ArticleQuoth quacks, “The medical consensus has changed before, making my quackery...
Brave maverick doctors (i.e., quacks) have long tried to portray themselves as "innovators" challenging an ossified medical consensus for the good of patients. This tradition continues among COVID-19...
View ArticleCancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski continues to prey on cancer patients in 2023
This year, cancer quack Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski turned 80. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be slowing down charging patients with advanced cancer huge sums for false hope. The post Cancer quack...
View ArticleHealth misinformation now has powerful allies
Misinformation and conspiracy theories about health had long been a growing problem before the pandemic, but it took COVID-19 to get the government and researchers to take it seriously. Now, a new...
View ArticleAlternative medicine and antivax: Two crappy tastes that taste crappy...
A recent study reaffirms the high degree of correlation among physicians between antivax views and an embrace of quackery. This is an old finding that needs to be documented periodically and shows why...
View ArticleMisinformation is pervasive, and AI will turbocharge it
Is it possible to refute an infinite amount of AI-generated health misinformation? The post Misinformation is pervasive, and AI will turbocharge it first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
View Article2024 Detox Trends To Watch (Out) For
Trends come and go but the popularity of detoxification and cleansing in January is eternal. The post 2024 Detox Trends To Watch (Out) For first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
View ArticleThe Wellness Company: How antivaccine grift becomes plain old quackery
The Wellness Company, promoted by Dr. Peter McCullough, is the product of a trend in which antivax doctors have predictably become just quacks. At least in this case, there is an amusing quack fight at...
View ArticleCOVID-19 antivax quacks are now “repurposing” ivermectin for cancer
A year ago, I noticed that COVID-19 quacks were touting the "repurposing" of ivermectin to treat cancer. Now, familiar COVID-19 antivaxxers—cough, cough, FLCCC—have turbocharged this quackery. The post...
View ArticleThe Menace of Wellness Influencers
Wellness influencers are often also conspiracy theorists, as both mindsets rely upon the same underlying methods, motivation, and narrative. The post The Menace of Wellness Influencers first appeared...
View ArticleBest Hospital Eye Roll
Science: Figuring things out is better than making things up. A tee shirt I recently saw. Except… In a recent post Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki, Steve seemed surprised that the Mayo was offering Reiki. I...
View ArticleMark Sircus and “natural allopathic medicine”? Now I’ve heard everything from...
The term "allopathic medicine" was invented by homeopaths in the 19th century as a disparaging term for medicine. So to see a quack like Mark Sircus try to coopt it as "natural allopathic medicine" is...
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