Recent Insolence delivered

• Quote antivaccinationist Hilary Butler: Non-vaccinators are the “new Jews”

  I’ve never been able to figure it out. Antivaccine zealots seem to have an intense love…

• Score one for the antiscience cranks in Portland on fluoridation

  Chalk one up for the forces of anti-science, quackery, and pseudoscience. The citizens of Portland, Oregon…

• The legacy of Andrew Wakefield continues

  Actions have consequences. No matter how much the person might want to try to hide from…

• A male BRCA mutation carrier “emulates” Angelina Jolie by having preventative surgery to remove his prostate? Not so fast there, pardner…

  Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
  OK, I know I use…

• A study contributes to the deceptive rebranding of naturopathy as “lifestyle counseling”

  That naturopathy is a veritable cornucopia of quackery mixed with the odd sensible, science-based suggestion here…

• Calling out false “balance” on vaccines and autism

  Manufactroversy.
  It’s wonderful, made-up word that describes a phenomenon so aptly, so brilliantly, that I like…

• The quack view of preventing breast cancer versus reality and Angelina Jolie, part 2

  After yesterday, I really hadn’t planned on writing about Angelina Jolie and her decision to undergo…

• The quack view of preventing breast cancer versus reality and Angelina Jolie

  I should have known it. I should have known that the reaction wouldn’t take very long.…

• NCCAM and “pragmatic trials.” Again.

  I’m not alone in pointing this out, but if there’s one thing about research and clinical…

• Alternative cancer “cures”: Nothing’s changed in 34 years

  Sometimes blogging topics arise from the strangest places. It’s true. For instance, although references to how…

• The kudzu that is “integrative oncology” continues to insinuate quackademic medicine into oncology

  I hate to end the week on a bit of a downer, but sometimes I just…

• Deconstructing another Stanislaw Burzynski cancer “success story”

  A key pillar of the Stanislaw Burzynski antineoplaston marketing machine, a component of the marketing strategy…