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Well, well, well, well…look who’s a pharma shill now!
Posted by Orac on March 26, 2009 Because of my stands against dubious medical “therapies” and outright quackery and for science- and evidence-based medicine, I have been the frequent target of what I’ve come to call the “pharma shill gambit.” It’s a pretty stupid and common ad hominem attack in which the attacker, virtually always an advocate of “complementary and alternative medicine”…
Dr. Dean Ornish: Turn away from the Dark Side! It’s not too late!
Posted by Orac on March 5, 2009 I realize I’ve said it before, but I still can’t believe as many people read what I like to lay down on a daily basis right here on this blog. Believe me, it has nothing to do with an sort of false sense of modesty. After four years at this, I know I’m good at…
Senator Tom Harkin: NCCAM and inviting the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse into the Senate
Posted by Orac on March 3, 2009 Yesterday, I wrote about Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) little woo-fest in the Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, which he called Integrative Care: A Pathway to a Healthier Nation. I and a lot of the rest of the medical blogosphere (such as PalMD, Val Jones, and Tufted Titmouse) shook our heads in disbelief…
Your Friday Dose of Woo: Help me Obi-Wan. You’re my only hope.
Posted by Orac on February 8, 2008 In the year and a half or so that I’ve been doing Your Friday Dose of Woo, I must admit that I’ve come across some truly weird stuff. Stuff so weird that, after reading it, you wonder either, “How on earth could someone seriously think something like this is true or would work?” or “How…