Stem Cell Enhancers? What a load of bollocks
If my job was to debunk poorly justified herbal remedies, I would eat well for life. Here is the newest one: stem cell enhancers. As covered in the Scientist: A California company is marketing the...
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Enzyte exec admits they were lying
Color me unsurprised. You have no doubt seen the commercials for the herbal penis-enlarging supplement Enzyte. They feature a guy with a weird smile and his grinning wife. The pills themselves come in...
View ArticleFriday Rants: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Needs to End
Complementary and alternative medicine has no business participating in mainstream science or medicine. As I understand it, there are five core premises on which complementary and alternative medicine...
View ArticleWhen Readers Comment (1/6/08) — CAM edition
My rant last Friday about Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) promoted a vigorous discussion, and I am happy about that. That ambivalence about CAM in even the scientific community is an...
View Article“God helmet”?…yeah…right…
A Christmas present, maybe? Maybe not. A “neurotheology” researcher called Dr Michael Persinger has developed something called the “God Helmet” lined with magnets to help you in your quest: it sounds...
View ArticleFad diets and cave men
Crooked Timber has a great post on using what you think ancestral man ate to argue for various types of fad diets: There seems to be about as much theorising relative to evidence in the discussion of...
View ArticleBenefits of Acupuncture Do Not Require Actually Inserting Needles
For acupuncture to work, you don’t actually have to put in the needles: The acupuncture study of 215 patients who were undergoing radiation treatment in the abdomen or pelvic region chose by lot one of...
View ArticleA Beat Poem about the Insanity of Alternative Medicine (and Other Things)
This beat poem is too funny. It is by Tim Minchin in which he describes a dinner party where he confronts a hippie — recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in December 08. Sadly NSFW and...
View ArticleIllinois Shooter Maybe Crazy, But Not Because of Lyme Disease
Did you catch this story? A man in Illinois walks into a church and shoots the pastor. After killing the pastor, his gun jams, he grabs a knife and starts stabbing himself. At which point, he is...
View ArticleHyperbaric O2: Good for some things, but not others
Most of the stuff you hear about hyperbaric oxygen being used to treat is total nonsense. It isn’t effective at treating autism or cerebral palsy. But an article in the Times makes the point that it is...
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