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Cranial Manipulation and Tooth Fairy Science 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Tooth Fairy Science is science that studies a phenomenon that doesn’t exist. You can do studies on the Tooth Fairy; for instance, comparing how much money she leaves to kids in different socioeconomic...
When urgency to cure beats research ethics, bad things happen 27 Aug 2013 | 12:20 am
Editor’s Note: Just for your edification, here’s a “bonus” post. True, you might have seen this recently elsewhere, but it’s so appropriate for SBM that I couldn’t resist sharing it with those of you ...
Preventing autism? Not so fast, Dr. Mumper… 26 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
Dug the Dog strikes again, as he did three weeks ago. I had a couple of ideas for a post this week, but none of them were time-sensitive or timely. Then, over the weekend, I saw a post on the antivacc...
Survey Says… 23 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm
Surveys are evidently a popular way to get a paper published. Put “complementary alternative medicine survey” into Pubmed and get 2,353 hits. I would have trouble coming up with a hundred groups about...
CAM Practitioners as PCPs under the ACA: Part 1 22 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Section 2607 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300gg-5) of the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA” or “Obamacare”) prevents “discrimination” against any health care provider acting within the scope of his or her state licen...
Conscious Discipline – More Dubious Neuroscience 21 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
I did not coordinate my topic for today with Harriet’s excellent review yesterday of Satel and Lilienfeld’s excellent book; the timing is just fortuitous. Harriet discussed popular abuses of neuroscie...
Brainwashed: Neuroscience and Its Perversions 20 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld have written a new book, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience. Its purpose is not to critique neuroscience, but to expose and protest its mindles...
E-cigarettes: The growing popularity of an unregulated drug delivery device 19 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
This post is not about vaccines (for a change). However, I deem it appropriate to mention that one of the topics that I blog most frequently about is vaccines and how the antivaccine movement pushes ...
Improperly Performed Acupuncture Linked to Spontaneous Human Combustion 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Experts in traditional Chinese medicine are warning patients to avoid unlicensed acupuncture practitioners after an apparent case of spontaneous human combustion. Baton Rouge, LA-When investigators c...
The facts of the alternative medicine industry 15 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
People have been living on earth for about 250,000 years. For the past 5,000 healers have been trying to heal the sick. For all but the past 200, they haven’t been very good at it. - Dr. Paul Offit ...
