July 25, 2023 Junk Science No, drinking borax will not contribute to better health despite TikTok videos’ claims to the contrary. But you will have some exceptionally colourful blue-green vomit amidst the other unpleasant and potentially life threatening outcomes.
June 28, 2023 Alternative Medicine TikTokers tout berberine as ‘nature’s Ozempic.’ There is little to no evidence to support this claim.
October 6, 2021 General information No, COVID vaccines do not cause infertility. Fantastic commentary by @DrJenGunter dismantles the misinformation and provides the evidence to refute same. #VaccinesWork #GoScience
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.
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.