April 28, 2021 Clinical Research Hope? Sure, but tone down the touting of experimental Pfizer drug to treat early Covid that hasn’t completed its 60-person phase 1 trial. And Miami private school ban on Covid-19-vaccinated teachers enters the pantheon of the Bizarro World.
March 1, 2021 Alternative Medicine College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario seeks input from members about policy changes for non-evidenced-based therapies.
December 9, 2020 General information And now, predictably, the social media pseudoscientists with their motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, Texas shotgun, causality fallacies and cherry-picked data have turned their sites on the coronavirus vaccines. #VaccinesWork #GoScience
May 20, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Although no plausible cancer-causing biological mechanism has been proven, J & J throws in the towel. Also, virus exposure time a factor in risk of successful infection among other factors.
May 19, 2020 Allergy/Immunology The snake-oil-peddling President. And in real science news, a new study sheds light on immune response to SARS-CoV-2.
April 24, 2020 General information President Trump’s free flow of medical advice and musings has truly traversed into the Bizarro World making all evidenced-based health practitioners’ jobs all the more difficult. Do not inject or inhale disinfectant into your body or irradiate yourself with UV light.
April 10, 2020 Allergy/Immunology No evidence that “immune-boosting” concoctions, supplements, or procedures augment protection from SARS-CoV2. Our immune system can be trained (vaccines and exposure) but not boosted. Keep the quacks at bay and save your money.
February 27, 2020 Cancer/Oncology Canada does little to stem the purveyors of quackery and their ads that promote cancer cures.
February 20, 2020 General information Why does Kyle Lowry sleep in a hyperbaric chamber, and should I do it too? Answer: No. Especially when cited sources in article confirming its benefits sell the product
January 8, 2020 Alternative Medicine Netflix addition of “The GOOP Lab” is another example of normalizing/legitimizing pseudoscience and a blatant example of conflict of interest given Paltrow’s business gets a huge advertising audience