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Category Archives: Alternative Medicine
5.1.2013
American Heart Association promotes alternative therapy for hypertension.
On April 22 2013 the American Heart Association came out with a a opinion statement recommending ”alternative therapy” for the management of hypertension. They are a nationally recognized source for information about heart disease and hypertension treatment. The AHA published it’s statement in the journal of / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health
4.29.2013
Remembrance of Fads Past: Orgone and Velikovsky
The speed with which trends on the internet move means that something can go from unknown to hugely popular to mocked while one is on a long vacation. But fads themselves are as old as history, and while an internet / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / New Age / Pseudoscience / Science / Space
Tagged in carl sagan / freud / new age energy / orgone / supressed science / velikovsky
4.27.2013
Natural Dog Supplements – Aloe Vera Juice
This week I take a look at another supplement promoted by some websites as a way to make your dog “healthier.” Much like other supplements, it seems the advice on Aloe Vera has carried over right from the same woo peddled / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Nature
Tagged in aloe / aloe juice / aloe vera / dogs / herbs / homeopathic / medicine / natural / pets
4.13.2013
Homeopathic and Natural Dog Supplements – Garlic
When I started back writing for Skeptoid on a regular basis, I asked on my social media accounts what people would like to see me cover. One that had a few votes was Homeopathic treatments for dogs. As I have / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Nature / Pseudoscience
Tagged in dogs / garlic / herbs / homeopathic / medicine / natural / pets
4.12.2013
MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism — Part 1
In a recent article by Joe Mercola, he has a list of what he deems to be likely environmental factors for autism (spoiler: he mentions vaccines). Let’s take a look at some of them. NOTE: I have no intent to / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Pseudoscience
Tagged in Autism / emr / klinghardt / mercola / vaccines
3.30.2013
Pot. Marijuana. Cannabis. Misunderstood Motives.
I have had a regular argument over the years with a family member about both the recreational use of pot and the use of pot and derived materials from pot. Many of the claims promoted by this family member surround its use / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / New Age
Tagged in Big Pharma / CAM / cancer / cancer.gov / cannabis / cannaboids / hemp oil / marijuana
3.15.2013
Pseudo Alert! Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Complementary and alternative medicine practices are harmful to society because they take money from cancer patients that they could be using on real cancer treatments that actually work. Doctors spend years in college and medical school and even longer in / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Pseudoscience / Skeptoid Podcast
Tagged in alternative medicine / complimentary medicine / pseudoscience
3.13.2013
Bee Venom and HIV are we getting stung again?
Bee venom therapy is an alternative medical treatment. Like many alternative treatments it has little plausibility, poor research, and primarily anecdotal evidence. Benefit appears in research only when controls are poor. In well blinded and controlled studies the “effects” disappear. Bee therapy / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Nature / Pseudoscience
2.26.2013
Anti-Viral Ad Supplement: Spam Is Not Always A Scam
I’m feeling under the weather today so I’m not up to my usual anti-advertisement tirade. However, since our Overlord Dunning has made it clear by example that a totally valid blog post can be made up of links to other / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Urban Legends
Tagged in black market pharmacy / drugs / e-mail / presciptions / sick / spam
2.16.2013
Konstantin Monastyrsky – Pseudoscience of Nutrition (Part 2)
Last week I wrote about the Konstantin Monastyrsky and the poor application of science and the use of mostly anecdote in his ideas as to what the human diet should be. Through most of my research on his ideas, it didn’t / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health
Tagged in Autism / diet / digestion / gutsense / Konstantin Monastyrsky / MiraLAX / PEG
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