Recent Surgeon News
Legal thuggery, antivaccine edition: Andrew Wakefield sues Brian Deer, the BMJ, and Fiona Godlee
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 137 days ago
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If there's one thing that a crank, quack, pseudoscientist, or anti-vaccine propagandist doesn't like, it's having the light of day shined upon his activities. In fact, so much do they hate it that they have a distressing tendency to respond to science-based criticism not with science-based rebuttals... (original story)
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Legal thuggery, antivaccine edition, part 3: Andrew Wakefield rallying the troops
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 137 days ago
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I realize I've already written two posts about Andrew Wakefield suing investigative journalist Brian Deer, the first one pointing out how it's just another example of cranks trying to silence criticism not through producing good science to defend their views but rather through abusing legal process ... (original story)
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Quacks react to Andrew Weil's proposed board certification in woo
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 139 days ago
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About a month ago, I discussed a rather disturbing development, namely the initiative by Dr. Andrew Weil to set up something he was going to call the American Board of Integrative Medicine, all for the purpose of creating a system of board certification for physicians practicing "integrative medicin... (original story)
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Chuck Norris outdoes Jenny McCarthy on vaccines
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 139 days ago
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Believe it or not, sometimes I rather miss Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey. Although McCarthy is still nominally the head of the anti-vaccine group Generation Rescue, she's really faded to a rather low profile over the last year or so. Indeed, the last time I even remember her spouting off about vacci... (original story)
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The return of the Medical Hypotheses anti-vaccine howler
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 139 days ago
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When it rains it pours, as they say. Yes, sometimes there's so much going on that I can't possibly blog about it all, particularly now that I've cut back a bit. This week seems to be turning into one of those weeks. Yesterday, I couldn't resist having a bit of fun with the grande dame of the anti-v... (original story)
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Dr. Donald Berwick Resigns as Head of Medicare
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 139 days ago
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Renowned patient safety expert Dr. Donald Berwick has resigned from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is being replaced by nurse Marilyn Tavenner. Drs. Glen Stream and Don Fisher comment. Dr. Donald Berwick (photo courtesy Wikipedia) (Source: Inside Surgery)MedWorm Sponsor Message: ... (original story)
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"Pox packages," child abuse, and the violation of federal law
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 139 days ago
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Fridays are usually a bad time for blogging for me, but it's a choice, not due to any circumstances. Usually, on Friday nights, I consciously make an effort to stay away from the computer and the blog. Frequently, I'm tired, and not infrequently I'll crash on the couch, only to wake up after midnigh... (original story)
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Shhhh, be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting ghosts...
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 139 days ago
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Ever since starting my blog nearly seven (!) years ago, I've concentrated mainly on skepticism in medicine, in particular examining various implausible medical claims that proliferate on the Internet and in our media like so much kudzu choking out science and reason. The reasons are two-fold. First,... (original story)
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HIV/AIDS denialism versus science
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 139 days ago
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As a skeptic and a blogger, my main interest has evolved to be the discussion of science-based medicine and how one can identify what in medicine is and is not based in science. Part of the reason for this is because of my general interest in skepticism dating back to my discovery that there actuall... (original story)
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And global warming is caused by the decrease in the number of pirates or: Why an inorganic chemistry journal should not publish a vaccine epidemiology paper
Posted from MedWorm: Surgeons 139 days ago
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In my eagerness to pivot back to an area of my interest after having had a little fun with anti-vaccine cranks, I ignored a paper to which several of my readers referred me over the last few days. Many of them had first become aware of it when everybody's favorite smugly condescending anti-vaccine c... (original story)
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