On the evolution of quackery
Once upon a time, there was quackery. It was the term used to refer to medical practices that were not supported by evidence and were ineffective and potentially harmful. Physicians understood that...
View ArticleQuackademic medicine marches on: George Washington University and the...
Quackery has been steadily infiltrating academic medicine for at least two decades now in the form of what was once called “complementary and alternative medicine” but is now more commonly referred to...
View ArticleIn which I am compared to Donald Trump by a pro-quackademic medicine activist
A little over a month ago, I wrote about how proponents of “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), now more frequently called “integrative medicine,” go to great lengths to claim...
View Article“Disruptive” functional medicine at the Cleveland Clinic: Disrupting medicine...
That the Cleveland Clinic has become one of the leading institutions, if not the leading institution, in embracing quackademic medicine is now indisputable. Indeed, 2017 greeted me with a reminder of...
View ArticleOn the "integration" of quackery into the medical school curriculum
Ever since the $200 million gift by Susan and Henry Samueli to UC-Irvine, I've been thinking about the "integration" of quackery into medicine through integrative medicine. The way advocates of...
View ArticleThe long strange road to normalizing the “integration” of quackery with medicine
It’s been a long time since I’ve encountered Glenn Sabin. You might remember him, though. He runs a consulting firm, FON Therapeutics, which is dedicated to the promotion of “integrative” health, or,...
View ArticleSelling an alternative medicine cancer cure testimonial as an “N-of-1” trial:...
If there’s one thing that proponents of “integrative medicine” (or, as it’s been called in the past, “complementary and alternative medicine,” or CAM) take great pains to emphasize whenever defending...
View ArticleSurprise! Surprise! JACM publishes a whole issue devoted to “integrative...
Last week, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM) published a Special Focus Issue on "integrative oncology." In reality, it's propaganda that promotes pseudoscience and the...
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