by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 22, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
The new reigning King of Bullshit Internet Health Memes David Avocado Wolfe isn’t slowing down. This week via FaceBook I stumbled upon one of his more recent pieces of bullshit advice where he is advising and advocation wrapping your joints in cabbage when you...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 21, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
It was great when just the other day when we learned… “…all homeopathic drugs will now have to come with a label clearly explaining that “there is no scientific evidence that the product works and [that] the product’s claims are based only on...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 7, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
Deepak Chopra likes me! He really, really likes me! (Well, not really…) Orac is currently hiding from the Federation in an undisclosed location (somewhere warm and out of the country, the better to avoid election news after having cast an absentee ballot), where...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 19, 2016 | Acupuncture, Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
Nature: Measuring Rat Screams with Hierarchical Micro/Nano-Porous Acupuncture Needles Harriet Hall invented the term ” Tooth Fairy Science ” doing research on a phenomenon before establishing that the phenomenon exists. Which describes the bulk of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 26, 2016 | Alternative Medicine
How “Traditional Chinese Medicine” Is Pushing Species to Extinction Science shows that most of today’s “traditional Chinese medicine” is simple quackery. But another consequence of the global “traditional medicine” industry...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 26, 2016 | Alternative Medicine
Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine. But He Didn’t Believe in It. Why did the U.S. Senate unwittingly endorse 1950s Chinese Communist Party propaganda? In case you missed it, Oct. 7-13 was designated Naturopathic Medicine Week, according to a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 25, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
How “Traditional Chinese Medicine” Is Pushing Species to Extinction Science shows that most of today’s “traditional Chinese medicine” is simple quackery. But another consequence of the global “traditional medicine” industry...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 16, 2016 | Acupuncture, Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
Well put…“It is merely a theatrical placebo based on pre-scientific myths.” — Australian sceptic group, Friends of Science in Medicine. Poking holes in acupuncture – The Medical Republic Sceptics are debunking the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture as...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 15, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Science, Science Based Medicine
Pretty much this is, all in one place, the reason I advocate SCIENCE BASED MEDICINE (the heavy emphasis very much intended) and discredit, discourage, disparage, dismiss and sometimes even insult and ridicule CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine. This video...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 6, 2015 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
Kinesio Tape is bullshit. There I said it. It does nothing other than fool people into thinking it does something. The placebo effect at best. Kinesio Tape sued in Consumer Fraud Class Action A Class Action Lawsuit alleging consumer fraud/deceptive advertising was...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 19, 2014 | Alternative Medicine
Medical intuitive, medical clairvoyant, medical psychic or intuitive counselor are all just different phrases describing quackery and bullshit! There is nothing “medical” about being a “medical intuitive or it wouldn’t be called alternative...
