Genuine concern is consistent concern, and the silence from the Urgency of Normal about literally everything happening today is clarifying.
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We deal with a seemingly endless conveyor belt of fad quack remedies (the proverbial game of whack-a-mole). We always have some new nonsense to deal with. For this reason I occasionally will look back at the pseudosciences of yesterday to get an update on any relevant research. It often takes years, even decades, for definitive clinical research to get done, long after […]
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The integrative medicine industry is all in on making a "scan" of your "biofield" part of your physician's diagnostic toolkit.
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Not-A-Doctor Wendy Weber, a naturopath, has been appointed Director of the NCCIH. Will this mean more MAHA quackery on top of the usual quackademic medicine?
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According to Dr. Prasad, the same people who loudly sounded the alarm bells about the J&J vaccine, conspired to hide kids killed by the COVID vaccine.
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As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Last week I wrote about traumatic brain injury (TBI). By coincidence, the BMJ just published a study looking at a type of TBI called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repeated head injuries over a long period of time, even those not severe enough to cause an acute TBI. They were looking specifically at former NFL football players, because that […]
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