Recent Insolence delivered

• Do you believe in magic in medicine?

  Sometimes, between blogging, a demanding day (and night) job doing surgery and science, and everything else,…

• No matter how often I read about treatments like this, I still can’t believe parents actually subject their children to them

  It’s been a while since I’ve written about MMS. You remember MMS, don’t you? It’s an…

• Bad science about GMOs: It reminds me of the antivaccine movement (revisited)

  I never used to write much about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) before. I still don’t do…

• Congratulations are in order for Jake Crosby!

  I’ve been trying to lay off the blogging on the weekend for a long time now,…

• “Autism biomed” and the murder of Alex Spourdalakis

  Sometimes, in the course of blogging, I come across a story that I don’t know what…

• Alternative medicine: The bait and switch is working

  For a long time, going back almost to the beginning of this blog eight and a…

• Why won’t you call me, RFK, Jr.? Let’s talk about vaccines!

  What’s Keith Kloor got that I haven’t got?
  What’s Laura Helmuth got that I haven’t got?
  Why won’t…

• Colorado, naturopathy, and “health freedom”: Devolving into a quack wonderland?

  It’s just one more cut on the road to the proverbial death by a thousand cuts.
  I’m…

• Just what I need: Cellular Feng Shui!

  Every so often, real life intrudes on blogging, preventing the creation of fresh Insolence, at least…

• I want my ANP! [NOTE ADDENDUM]

  [NOTE ADDENDUM.]
  It’s been a (mostly) all Stanislaw Burzynski week. I had been thinking of finishing up…

• A couple of cranks: Compare and contrast

  It was a busy day yesterday, and I had less time than usual to attend to…

• Odds and ends left over after the Panorama Burzynski Clinic report: Burzynski versus his own SEC filing

  I realize that I’ve been focusing on Stanislaw Burzynski the last couple of days, but it’s…