Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 12a
(Sat, 16 Mar 2024)
I slept like a rock, no dreams that I could remember, and upon awakening, the ball of anxiety that had been my constant companion was gone. I tried to get it back by thinking of all the
unpleasant things that might happen in the next few days. Nothing. I felt good. Acceptance is the final stage of dying, so I must, at […]
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Parasite Cleanse
(Wed, 13 Mar 2024)
Tik Tok is a cesspool of wellness pseudoscience and misinformation. All of social media has the potential to spread misinformation without any filter, but for some reason Tik Tok has become the
preferred platform for the most outrageous claims and nonsense. A recent trend on Tik Tok (and within the wellness community generally) is the parasite cleanse. The idea is that many […]
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Prions. Why did it have to be prions? (Again.)
(Mon, 11 Mar 2024)
Prions. Why did it have to be prions? (Again.) The antivax trope that vaccines cause prion disease is an old one, and antivaxxers are trying desperately to resurrect it to apply to COVID-19
vaccines.
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Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. 11b
(Sat, 09 Mar 2024)
I hopped the trolley to Kenton to spend the afternoon helping Susan with the quarantine. After I got off the trolley, I purchased thirty of the Extra Editions and handed them out to the families
of the Cholera victims. Mostly because I wanted people to know about the seawater treatment, I figured that word about the pump water would spread quickly, and […]
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Fenbendazole is fast becoming the laetrile of the 2020s
(Mon, 04 Mar 2024)
Antivaxxers who "repurposed" deworming drugs like ivermectin and fenbendazole are peddling cancer "miracle cure" testimonials that remind me of laetrile and Stanislaw Burzynski. Truly, everything
old is new again.
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Skeptics in Pub. Cholera. Chapter 11a
(Sat, 02 Mar 2024)
The morning started too early. For some reason, I snapped awake just before sunrise and could not fall back to sleep. Probably that ball of guilt in the pit of my stomach. I suspected it is a
minor example of what a condemned man feels on the morning of his execution. I lay in bed and stared thoughtlessly at the ceiling waiting […]
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Quality differences of supplements vs. drugs
(Thu, 29 Feb 2024)
When it comes to drugs or dietary supplements, accuracy should be a given. What’s on the label should accurately describe what’s in the bottle. No exceptions. When it comes to ensuring the
products we buy are of high quality, we’re all effectively reliant on regulation to protect us. As a pharmacist, I can’t personally verify that each tablet in your prescription contains […]
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What Is Somatic Therapy?
(Wed, 28 Feb 2024)
Is modern medicine descending into pseudoscience, or is scientific medicine still going strong? Unfortunately, I think both of these things can happen at the same time. On the one hand,
scientific research in medicine is progressing nicely. We are seeing the results of scientific breakthroughs made decades ago, with monoclonal antibody therapies, new therapeutic targets, the
beginning of real genetic therapy, brain-machine […]
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How antivaxxers weaponize vaccine safety studies to falsely portray vaccines as dangerous
(Mon, 26 Feb 2024)
Antivaxxers have weaponized a huge multinational vaccine safety study of 99 million patient records that found rare adverse events and concluded that the risks of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the
benefits. How? A combination of the Nirvana fallacy and spin.
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Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 10b
(Sat, 24 Feb 2024)
A young woman was waiting at the pump. She introduced herself as Amy Blogg, an Illustrator for the River Weekly. She quickly let us know that she had been briefed by Mrs. Howitt. I demonstrated
the workings of the microscope on a blade of grass and an ant. It was met with the usual expressions of amazement by first-timer users. If I […]
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More Unneeded Adjectives
(Tue, 20 Feb 2024)
This is going to be a mostly reference free blog entry. Mostly a rambling opinion about my biases and opinions about science. And you know what they say about opinions. I seem to fret an
inordinate amount about adjectives. So often they do not belong in front of the nouns found here at the blog. I remain a touch annoyed at the […]
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False balance in an NBC news story on whole body MRI scans
(Mon, 19 Feb 2024)
Over the weekend, NBC News aired a story on whole body MRI scans. Although it did include the usual cautions about false positives and the harm they cause, the caution was diluted by the story's
focus a rare case of a woman who had a brain tumor detected. Overall, it was false balance that reminded me of vaccine/autism stories 20 years ago.
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Skeptics in the Pub: Cholera. Chapter 10a
(Sat, 17 Feb 2024)
When I woke up the next morning, I went for my usual tea and scone. Then I caught the trolley to work. When it reached the far side of the Steel Bridge, I hopped off. I took the steps down to the
lower level and took the narrow walking path back across the river. I saw no one get off the trolley […]
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Music for Reducing Pain in Newborns
(Fri, 16 Feb 2024)
Newborns are exposed to painful procedures for good reason every day. Treating pain is important in this population, and music might play a role. At least it definitely won't hurt.
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Adios Aduhelm
(Thu, 15 Feb 2024)
The controversial and never-proven-effective drug to treat Alzheimer's disease, aducanumab (Aduhelm) has been discontinued.
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Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki
(Wed, 14 Feb 2024)
The Mayo Clinic is a prestigious medical institution with a deserved international reputation. It also promotes rank pseudoscience. It does this, apparently, for all the reasons we have explored
here at SBM over the years. I have seen first hand how one or a few true believers can promote so-called alternative medicine at their institutions, meeting little resistance from colleagues and
administrators […]
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Yet more evidence that we physicians need to clean up our act
(Mon, 12 Feb 2024)
A recent study found that physicians and scientists who are perceived as "experts" are prevalent within the antivax community and more influential because of their status as physicians and
scientists. Why do physicians continue to tolerate antivax quacks within our ranks?
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Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 9b
(Sat, 10 Feb 2024)
“You are here early,” he said. “Yeah. I’m trying to decide what to do about this pump and the seawater cure. So far, my attempts are falling flat.” I told him about the couple pumping water and
my lack of success in stopping them from taking the water home. “No surprise,” said Bonham. “Water is supposed to be as safe as mothers” […]
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