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William Makis, a former physician, faced legal action for practicing medicine without a license after losing his medical permit. A court found him in contempt for disregarding an order prohibiting him from presenting himself as a doctor and offering treatments… Read More »Court prohibits William Makis from treating cancer patients
The post debunks the false claim that measles prevents cancer, emphasizing the risks associated with measles infections. It critiques the weak studies supporting this idea and highlights the safety and effectiveness of the MMR vaccine. Measles complications are severe, and… Read More »Measles prevents cancer? Debunking an anti-vaccine trope
The author declines a debate with tech bro Steve Kirsch on vaccine safety, arguing science isn’t subject to debate, and Kirsch lacks evidence to support his anti-vaccine claims. The writer emphasizes that thousands of experts in relevant scientific disciplines have… Read More »Steve Kirsch wants a vaccine debate — science doesn’t debate
People seem to embrace the unscientific anti-vaccines opinions pushed by people like Robert F Kennedy Jr. I list out reasons why.
Starving cancer is another one of those internet myths pushed by pseudoscientific quacks who try to give people and “easy” cure for cancer.
Professor Dorit Rubinstein Reiss reviews why the critics of Robert F Kennedy Jr have not sued him for defamation despite his false claims.
I have been meaning to write about germ theory for years because a big part of vaccine denialism requires a good bit of germ theory denialism. Some anti-vaxxers want to create an illusion of scientific integrity by attempting to outright reject the germ theory of disease.
Germ theory is one of the central tenets of biology along with biochemistry, cells, evolution, and genetics. It is not some idea that was invented by those of us who support vaccines just to convince people to get vaccines. It is a foundation of medicine and biology that is centuries old.
This article is going to be a discussion of what exactly is germ theory, and briefly show how the anti-vaxxers deny it to “prove” that vaccines are unnecessary.
Read More »Germ theory denial – another favorite of the anti-vaccine world
On 3 March 2018, Google’s YouTube provided us with some good news, because we all need some these days. YouTube terminated Natural News including their whole library of videos. If you search for Natural News on YouTube, you cannot find it. If someone republished one of Natural News videos, it has disappeared. If you have some blog post with an embedded YouTube video with one of Mike Adams’ rants, it will not be there.
In 2017, Google quit indexing Natural News in its searches because of some violation of Google policy by Adams, aka the Health Ranger. We, the science supporters, cheered, as we consider Natural News (and ilk like it) to be at the very bottom of scientific evidence. We all had good fun with it, including the ecstatic Orac, who wrote,
I am, however, very much enjoying my schadenfreude, and will continue to do so as long as Adams’ site is delisted and he continues his tirades against Google and his victimhood conspiracies.
Of course, Adams whined and whined about it with some creative conspiracy theories, although everything we were able to gather about the situation, Natural News violated one of Google’s policies that aim to prevent gaming of search engine optimization. Eventually, Adams corrected the issue, and you could search Natural News again. If that’s your thing.
At least I enjoyed myself for a couple of days. Maybe I can enjoy a year after YouTube terminated Natural News. Maybe a couple of years? Maybe forever?
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These days, it appears that pseudoscience in medicine, everything from homeopathy to anti-vaccine beliefs to cancer treatments to chiropractic to naturopathy, has taken hold of many people’s choices. It’s become so frustrating to read stories about people forsaking science-based medicine to use some quack treatment to treat their cancer.
I think there’s a basic reason for it — science is hard. Whether it results from the lack of education in science to a misunderstanding of science is irrelevant, too many people think that science-based medicine doesn’t work. Except it does.
I’ve written about pseudoscience over a hundred times, but I never answered the question of why it grabs the attention of people. I’m going to try to answer that here.
Read More »Why does pseudoscience in medicine and vaccines seem so popular today?