Recent Surgeons News
Now there's some "anti-science"...
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 5 days ago
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I'm sometimes criticized for referring to various people who are "anti-science" as, well, "anti-science." People, for whatever reason, have a hard time believing that anyone is anti-science; so when I point out how much, for example, antivaccinationists, alternative medicine believers, or creationis... (original story)
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Acupuncture and COPD? Not so fast...
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 5 days ago
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I acquiesce. I know that I'm not going to have a lot of control over my selection of blogging material for a given day when I see more than one or two requests for an analysis of an article. So it was, when links like these were showing up in my e-mail: Acupuncture May Help Ease Symptoms of COPD... (original story)
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Your Friday Dose of Woo: Heal your genome?
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 5 days ago
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It's been a while since I've done a bit of Your Friday Dose of Woo, and I actually kind of miss it. It's not that there hasn't been anything that hasn't been worthy of this "honor" for a while. On the other hand, there hasn't been anything in a while that combines just the right proportions of pure ... (original story)
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Two more tragic tales of Burzynski patients
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 5 days ago
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One of my newer blogging interests is the "alternative" cancer doctor named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski. Although I had heard of him years ago, mainly in the context of his desperate patients tapping into the generosity of kind-hearted strangers to pay for his "antineoplaston" therapy, I hadn't really w... (original story)
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The (not so) Thinking Moms' (D)evolution continues apace
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 5 days ago
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About a week ago, I took note of what appears to be a new offshoot of the antivaccine movement known as the Thinking Moms' Revolution (TMR). At the time, I pointed out the toxic combination of hubris mixed with ignorance that resulted in a risible "declaration of independence" from "medical tyranny.... (original story)
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understandings
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 5 days ago
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anaesthetists and surgeons work together quite a bit, but they are very different creatures. sometimes it takes a bit of effort for them to understand each other and get along. some would say it takes effort from pretty much anyone to get along with a surgeon. so it is nice to hear a story occasiona... (original story)
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In which Orac basks in the adoration of an antivaccine fan...
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 5 days ago
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I'm sometimes asked why I do this. Why, people ask me, do I spend so much time generating post after post after post day after day after day? Obviously, one reason is that it interests me. Another reason is the passion that drives me to support science and science-based medicine and to detest the da... (original story)
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Antivaccine activists try to flog Rep. Dan Burton's fear mongering about an "autism epidemic"
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 15 days ago
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Oh, goody. Remember last week, when I took note of how organized quackery's best friend in Congress, not to mention a shining example of crank magnetism, Representative Dan Burton of Indiana, was taking the opportunity of his having announced that he would not be running for reelection this year to... (original story)
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Supplements: Not mystical anticancer magic
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 15 days ago
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It's no secret that over the years I've been very critical of a law passed nearly 20 years ago, commonly referred to as the DSHEA of 1994. The abbreviation DSHEA stands for about as Orwellian a name for a law as I can imagine: the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Of course, as we've poin... (original story)
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NCCAM: I say we take off and nuke the entire center from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 15 days ago
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Over the years that this blog has been in existence, beginning very early on, there has been one overarching theme. That theme is that the best medicine is science-based medicine. Sure, we could quibble about how that was originally defined, and I used to be more of a booster of evidence-based medic... (original story)
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