Reiki propaganda in U.S. News & World Report
Sigh. Just a week ago, I deconstructed an awful article touting how the mass of prescientific quackery known as traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as somehow being “validated” by modern science....
View ArticleMouse magic, or How lab mice learned to stop worrying and trust the healing...
I frequently call homeopathy The One Quackery to Rule Them All, but there are times when I am not so sure that that’s the case. You see, there is…another. I’m referring, of course, to what is referred...
View ArticleA portrait of quackademia triumphant: Georgetown University
I frequently discuss a disturbing phenomenon known as “quackademic medicine.” Basically, quackademic medicine is a phenomenon that has taken hold over the last two decades in medical academia in which...
View ArticleIn the pages of Nature, a full-throated defense of “integrating” quackery...
Oh, no, Nature. Not you. Not again. It wasn’t enough that you were busted shilling for traditional Chinese medicine with a big, glossy advertising supplement a few years ago. I thought you had learned...
View ArticleNo, it is not okay to give patients a treatment with no proved medical benefits
Et tu, Scientific American? A few of you seem to know what will catch my attention and push my buttons, because over the past couple of days a few of you sent me an article published in Scientific...
View ArticleAn Australian “energy healer” begs medicine to take him seriously
Even though I’ve taken on the ‘nym of a fictional computer in a 35-year-old British science fiction series whose key traits were an arrogant and condescending manner and the ability to tap into every...
View ArticleIntegrative medicine and spoon bending at the University of Alberta and...
After over 11 years at this blogging thing, I periodically start to fear that I’m becoming jaded. In particular, after following the infiltration of quackery in the form of “complementary and...
View ArticleQuackery expands in the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital...
I’ve been writing about this topic so long—ever since the very beginning of this blog—that it seems as though I’ve always been doing it even though this blog has been in existence only 11 years and I...
View ArticleThe Cleveland Clinic: Promoting dubious diet advice on Twitter and beyond
I’ve mentioned on quite a few occasions that there’s a quote attributed to philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer that is much beloved of cranks: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed....
View ArticleThe unreality of reiki and distance healing
Well, it’s 2017. In a mere 17 days, unreality will become reality, as the most unlikely and terrifying President in my lifetime is sworn in. Consequently, as I was thinking about what I’d like to write...
View ArticleCharlie Goldsmith: A new celebrity quack arises, enabled by TLC
Two years ago, I took note of an "energy healer" named Charlie Goldsmith and an incredibly poor "clinical trial" being touted as evidence of his healing abilities. It now turns out that Goldsmith is...
View ArticleLuminas Pain Relief Patches: Where the words “quantum” and “energy” really...
Orac discovers the Luminas Pain Relief Patch. He is amused at how how quacks confuse the words "quantum" and "energy" with magic. The post Luminas Pain Relief Patches: Where the words “quantum” and...
View ArticleAn embarrassing paean to reiki in The Atlantic
For some inexplicable reason, The Atlantic published an embarrassing paean to the mystical magical woo that is reiki. The post An embarrassing paean to reiki in <em>The Atlantic</em>...
View ArticleDid Columbia University cut ties with Dr. Oz?
Decades after "America's Quack" Dr. Oz pioneered “integrating” quackery into medicine and after many years of promoting diet scams and quackery on a nationally syndicated daily television show,...
View ArticleAmerica’s Quack Dr. Oz and the failure of medical academia, revisited
It's Election Day. Worse, it's quite possible that America's Quack Dr. Mehmet Oz could be Senator-Elect Oz by tomorrow. He was helped by a profound failure of medical academia in general and Columbia...
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