QuackCast
By Mark Crislip
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Podcast Description
A review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. Thats not right. That should be Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. SCAM's. Winner in 2009, 2010, and 2011 of The People's Choice Podcast Awards for Best Health Podcast. A side project of Pusware LLC, home of the Infectious DIsease Compendium: A Persiflagers Guide, your uber hyperlinked guide to Infectious Disease, the Persiflagers Infectious Disease Puscast and a Gobbet o' Pus.
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Quackcast 90. Stop Making Sense. | Random thoughts after reading 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense by Michael Brooks. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 91. Cannibalism? | Do the Chinese and Koreans eat dead babies? I bet no. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 89: Spring Update | Update on raw milk, TCM, acupuncture and homeopathy. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 88: Drinking from the Fire Hose: Odds and Ends on the Gasping Oppression aka the flu. | Drinking from the Fire Hose: Odds and Ends on the Gasping Oppression aka the flu. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 87: Feet of Clay | The NEJM editors apparently do not bother to read their own content, much to my disappointment. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 86: The Species in the Feces | Stool Transplants. Yep. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 85: On the Application of Science. | Changing practice is not as easy as it would appear. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 84: Perpetul Motion. The Bravewell Report | When major medical institutions offer SCAM. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 13. Herbal "Remedies". Like "Fresh" Fish. | A tour of some popular herbs. Reviewing the medical literature with commentary of the following herbs: echinacea, ginkgo, st johns wort, black cohash, saw palmetto, and glucosamine/chondrotin. Copyright 2007 Mark Crislip. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 23. Trust No One. But me | What an article says and what people say it says, and what people say it says it says etc are often not the same thing. I tediously dissect a medical paper and comment of what two commentators say it says. If this kind of description, much less the podcast, is not itself a near death experience, I do not know what is. Copyright 2008, creative commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 75. Recycle. | Drinking Urine. Ick. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 63. Without Borders. | Exporting woo to your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 27. Acupuncture and Chiropractic Update | A review of Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine ie SCAMS. Copywrite 2008, Pusware LLC under creative commons. This podcasts reviews 2 papers on acupuncture and pain, and one on chiropractic and stroke. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 57. Oh So Silly Oh coccinum and whiny babies. | Oh So Silly Oh coccinum and whiny babies. Some odds and ends about influenza treatment and prevention. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 1. Opening Salvo | An occasional skeptical and sarcastic review of alternative medicine. Today: General approach to human stupidity. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 16. Probiotics | A review of probiotics: theory, use and complications. Copyright 2007 Creative Commons | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 77. Alternative vaccination. | Doing the American way: Making it up. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 82. More Placebo. | I keep yammering on about the worthless placebo. Oh well, It’s my podcast. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 55. Homeopathetic Vaccines | A review of the airquotes science end airquotes behind the homeopathetic vaccines/nosodes. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 67. Ambiguity. | -- | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 36. Hi Ho Silver. | The data to support the use of colloidal silver is less than WMD's in Iraq. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 3. Homeopathic Theory | Of all the kinds of alt.med available, Homeopathy has to be the most retarded. And thats saying something. Listen and see why. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 6. Prayer | A review of the medical literature suggests that prayer is not an efficacious therapeutic intervention for medical illnesses. And I am almost certainly going to h e double toothpicks, if you know what I mean. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 61. Deadly Indeed. | Thoughts on the recent Skeptical Enquirer article, Seven Deadly Medical Hypotheses. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 32. Huffpo. 32 Sentences and 57 taradiddles. | How many taradiddles can a single post contain? | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 80. Seal of Approval. | Dr. Oz approved. Insert snort of derision. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 56. Sky Maul. A meandering look at aspects of acupuncuture by the easily distracted. | Why did the Iceman die 5500 years ago? | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 48. Acupuncture CME | The best and brightest nonsense money can buy. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 64. Parasites. | Parasites and their so called diagnosis. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 60. Triskaidekaphobia times two. | A reflection on the capacity of the immune system. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 58. Cranberry Juice and UTI's | After 45 years of investigation and 100 crappy studies you still can't say definitively that Cranberry Juice is effective. Although it probably isn't. But I still like my cosmo. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 30. Lets Kill The Children or A Defense of Vaccines. | Why vaccines, to quote Mr. Pooh, "Are a Good Thing." | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 39. Measles Update. | The MMR doesn’t cause autism. Duh. But it does protect from autism. WTH? | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 47 or so. More on Medical Voices. | Medical Voices website has a variety of what could be considered misinformation. I look at the core fallacy, or nut, behind 20 essays on the site. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 74. Gullible George. | When it comes to CAM, PBS means Produces Bull Stuff (I do not want to get an explicit tag). | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 42. The Tamiflu spin. | Atlantis, er, I mean the Atlantic discusses the use of Tamiflu and is as reliable as Plato. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 65. Raw MIlk. | Drink Raw MIlk. ID docs need work too, | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 41. YOU, acupuncture and the military. | An acupuncture update. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 43. Literature update: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. | -- | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 46. Mumps. | Should you get vaccinated or get the real disease? I suggest the former, Medical Voices suggests the latter. See why. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 20. Influenza myths | The flu can kill you. What YOU can do to prevent it. Tonight on the 10 o'clock news. Plus, the truth behind Brittany's hair. Copywrite 2007, creative commons. Pusware LLC. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 69. Honey. | Not the bee all and end all, it has its uses in wound care. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 52. Good Journals Gone Bad. | -- | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 26. Alternative Aviation | Recycled material from the Scienced Based Medicine Blog. Green and copyright 2008, Pusware LLC. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 83. AK: Nonsense on Full Automatic. | In the race to be the goofiest SCAM, can Applied Kinesiology win? | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 2. Echinacea | Echinacea. A useful adjunct or a load of crap. What do you think I’m going to say? Crap. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 24. The Yeast Dis Connection | -- | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 35. Flu vaccine efficacy. Plus 18 taradiddles. | Does the flu vaccine work? Is the earth an oblate spheroid? Yep. Find out how we know (the vaccine, not the earth). Plus 18 flu related taradiddles. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 51. Short Attention Span Quackcast | A hodgepodge of topics. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 37. Acai. | Acai. Spanish for take the money and run. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 73. The Annals of Internal Medicine Qualifies for Fail Blog. | Watch as a formally good Journal publishes amateur garbage on TCM and the ‘treatment’ of flu. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 31. Green our SCAM. | Chinese medicine is bad for you and bad for the earth. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 17. Update 1 NUCCA and Hypertension | An evaluation of "Atlas vertebrae realignment and achievement of arterial pressure goal in hypertensive patients: a pilot study." Published in 2007 in the journal of Human Hypertention. Podcast copyright 2007, PuswareLLC and creative commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 4. Homeopathy Clinical Trials | Clinical trials of homeopathy are of poor quality and treat self limited diseases. The better the study, the less well homeopathy does. In the best meta analysis to date, it is concluded that homeopathy doesn't work. Duh. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 34. Flu Woo for You. | A tediously long exposition on but a fraction of the flu woo. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 62. The World has Moved On. | Idle thoughts on HuffPo medical nonsense. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 19. Iridology | A look at the iridology, a form of fiction mistaken as a diganostic modality. Copywrite 2007 Pusware LLC and Creative Commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 33. Update on Acupuncture, Chiropractic and Herbal Remedies | -- | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 7. Theory of Acupuncture | The theory of acupuncture is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality. It has no biologic or physiologic plausibility. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 72. Train Therapy. | Lying on train tracks to improve your health. No worse than homeopathy. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 71. CAM. The Beer Goggles of Medicine. | More on how CAM = Placebo. Placebo = nothing. Therefore CAM = Nothing. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 49. Bought and Sold. Who pays for CME. | The best and brightest nonsense money can buy. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 15. Magnet ‘Therapy’ | A review of magnets as a medical intervention. I really should have called it the crap cast, because this is crap. Not the podcast. Magnetic therapy. Copyright 2007 Creative Commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 50. NEJM and Acupuncture. | Even the best can publish garbage. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 25. Fungi Shui | -- | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 12. How to Identify Quackery and Homeopathic Horrors | Seven rules of thumb to identify quackery, with examples. Also more on the potential dangers of homeopathy. Copyright 2006, creative commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 45. The Vaccine Pseudo Controversy. | A review of the the alleged side effects of the third greatest invention of all time. After clean water and the flush toilet. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 21. Acupuncture update | Quackcast 21, my podcast can now drink in Oregon. A review of the medical literature of SCAMS: supplements, complementary and alternative medicine. Copywrite 2007, creative commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 44. Nine questions, nine answers. | An ND suggests there are 9 questions that pro-vaccine proponents can't answer. Ha. My 12 year old can find the answers. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 22. Boost your immune system And die | A cursory review of the immune system and then a review of some medical literature that suggests boosting it will cause you to die die die die die die die die die die die die die........ Got carried away. Were all gonna DIE!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry. I panic easily. Copyright 2007, Creative commons license and Pusware LLC. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 8. Acupuncture's Efficacy | The efficacy of acupuncture is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality. It doesn't work and has the potential to cause real harm. copyright 2006 Mark Crislip Creative Commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 68. The Dow of Accutane. | -- | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 40. Literature update. Chiropractic and Ginkgo. | Quackcast 40. Literature update. Chiropractic and Ginkgo. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 53. Reflexology. | Reflexology. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 70. SOS DD. | SCAM proponents have a different understanding of reality. See Dr. Chopra's writings as the archetype. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 78. Random Flu Thoughts. | Interferon induced random flu thoughts. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 38. Mesotherapy. | Do you really think injecting artichoke into your skin will make fat go away? Really? | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 76. The Prostrate Placebo. | Saw palmetto does not work and neither does placebo. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 59. The Vaccine Council of Vaccinations Reviewed. | The Vaccine Council of Vaccinations doesn't want you and yours to get vaccinated. The data? Pulled out of their, er, well, lets call it thin air. Yeah. Thin Air. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 9. Lies, Damn Lies and the use of alt med | 34% to 42% of Americans use alternative medicine each year. True? Of course not. See how data is misrepresented to support nonsense. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 14. Naturopathy Quacks of all trades, masters of none | A review of the practice of naturopathy, not particularly favorable for some odd reason. Copyright 2007, Pusware LLC and Mark Crislip. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 79. Hodgepodge. | A bit of medicine, a bit of acupuncture, a bit of staring. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 11. Evidence to Support Efficacy and Complications of Chiropractic | Does Chiropractic work for low back pain? Other diseases? Is it safe? What does it take to get into Chiropractic School? The answer to all this and more in this podcast. Copyright 2006, creative commons | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 29. Reiki and Theraputic Touch | Energy Therapies abound in SCAM’s. Here are two. Reiki and Theraputic Touch. Copyright 2008, Creative Commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 28. Vitamin C and the Common Cold | Because the Peter Principle rules, millions were spent to demonstate clearly that Vitamin C has minimal effects on the common cold. Someone needs to return his Nobel prize. Copyright 2008, Creative Commons. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 5. Placebo Effect | Alt.med effects are often attributed to the placebo effect. Turns out the placebo effect does not exist. So when the effect of alt.med is equal to placebo effect, it is the same as saying it is equal to nothing. How true, how true. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 18. Update 2 Echinacea Meta Anal Ysis | The Lancet published a meta anal ysis of echinacea and concluded it was effective. Is it true? Well, what is truth? Listen to the podcast and hear my truth. Copywrite 2007 Pusware LLC. | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuackCast 10. History and Theory of Chiropractic | The theory of chiropractic is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality. It has no biologic or physiologic plausibility. But it doesn't stop the AMA having its legal rear handed them by the Chiropractors. Copyright 2006 creative common.org. | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quackcast 81. Alas poor Craniosacral. A SCAM of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. | A race to the bottom for silliness. | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 89 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Excellent!
In an age where the faculty of reason has been shoved out the door, it's refreshing to hear an advocate for sound thinking and good medicine
snidely whiplash
this is a very clever, amusing, thoughtful, cynical journey through the mythology of pseudo science and magical thinking. Dr Crislip has the courage to ask the obvious questions of "alternative medicine" that is asked of allopathic medicine routinely... how does that treatment work.. how do you know... why does it work that way.. what is the scientific basis ? This series dares to abandon the politically correct and presumed "open minded" inclusion of what are, really, whacko ideas. He challenges the defenders of these cults to simply enter the same skeptical world of science in the current century and prove his rejection of fairytails is unfounded. Just prove it! The essays are not just rants of opinion, but an entertaining look at the scientific evidence (or lack of) for non-allopathic methods and treatments. His intellegent, thoughtful and quite scholarly investigation of these topics is presented with a kind of a back of the classroom irreverence and dry wit. check it out..you'll be entertained and might learn something... like .. don't believe everything you hear!
Grade A dissemination of Quackery
This is a very enjoyable podcast, chock full of information about the new snake-oil peddlers of the 21st century. Like many of the podcasts I enjoy, there's never a new episode often enough for me!!
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