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By oracknows on May 6, 2015.
As hard as it is to believe, I ve been spending a significant part of my time countering pseudoscience for close to 17 years, so long that it seems that I ve always been doing it. Of course, that s not true; I didn t actually become involved in this seemingly never-ending Sisyphean task until I was in my mid-30s, which means that the majority of my life had been spent more or less blissfully ignorant that there are people out there who passionately believe, for example, that vaccines are dangerous and cause autism and that bleach enemas can reverse that autism or that there were quacks out there who advocate slapping yourself silly until you have bruises all over to treat, well, just about anything. And so it is with the vast majority of people out there, including physicians, who by and large know on a superficial level that a lot of what is part of integrative medicine involves the integration of quackery into medicine but don t k