Yesterday, I wrote about how pediatric neurosurgeon turned presidential candidate Ben Carson is an excellent example demonstrating how the vast majority of physicians and surgeons, even highly accomplished ones admired as being at the top of their professions, are not scientists and how many of them are disturbingly prone to buying into pseudoscience. In Dr.
There has long been a huge appeal in medicine that derives from being an "apostate." Since COVID-19 hit, apostasy has become like a drug among too many doctors.
Increasingly there is a war on the science-based regulation of medicine. It's an old story, but the forces against science-based policy have been emboldened.
I like to think that one of the more important public services I provide is my deconstructions of alternative cancer cure testimonials. After all, one of the most powerful marketing tools cancer quacks have in their arsenal is a collection of stories of "real patients" with cancer who used their nostrums and are still alive and well.
A new study by Leigh Turner has found that dubious stem cell clinics are registering even more dubious "clinical trials" under ClinicalTrials.gov in which they charge patients to enroll. In this unethical practice, they are merely following the trail blazed by cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski.