Synopsis
A review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. Thats not right. That should be Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. SCAMs. Winner in 2009, 2010, and 2011 of The Peoples 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.
Episodes
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Quackcast 149: That's so Chiropractic
21/09/2016Chiropractic research and more.
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Quackcast 150: Ebola SCAMs
21/09/2016Variations of homeopathy to treat Ebola
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Quackcast 150a: Rationalizing the Ridiculous
21/09/2016How do people justify offering nonsense?
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Quackcast 151: Chaperones Needed
21/09/2016You Docs and acupuncture: do they read the literature?
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Quackcast 152: Placebo Speculations
21/09/2016More on the nature of the placebo effect
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Quackcast 153: Infinite Variety?
21/09/2016So many kinds of acupuncture. Which one is the chosen one?
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Quackcast 154: Why Get A Flu Shot?
21/09/2016A quick review of the benefits of the flu vaccine.
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Quackcast 155: In the Spirit of Choosing Wisely
21/09/2016How to choose a SCAM wisely.
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Quackcast 156: Homeotoxicology
21/09/2016Another odd from of homeopathy.
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Quackcast 157: Acupunture Odds and Ends
21/09/2016Some recent acupuncture articles evaluated.
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Quackcast 158: Mel asks and I do my best to answer.
21/09/2016An acupuncturist has questions. I try and answer.
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Quackcast 159: Gut Check
21/09/2016Update on probiotics.
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Quackcast 161: Traditional Chinese Pseudo-Medicine Hodgepodge
21/09/2016A variety of studies reviewed.
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Quackcast 163: Lyme: Two Worlds Compared and Contrasted
21/09/2016Comparing the approach of the IDSA with ILADS. Who will reign supreme?
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Quackcast 164: FDA and Homeopathy: Part Two.
21/09/2016Friends, FDA, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Homeopathy, not to praise it. The evil that homeopaths do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Homeopathy. The noble Ullman Hath told you homeopathy was effective: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Homeopathy answer’d it. Here, under leave of Ullman and the rest– For Ullman is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Homeopathy’s funeral. It was my nostrum, faithless and worthless to me: But Ullman says it was effective; And Ullman is an honourable man. He hath brought many provings home to HPUS Whose prescriptions did the general coffers fill: Did this in Homeopathy seem effective? When that the ill have died, Hom
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Quackcast 165: Mediocre Expectations
21/09/2016More on on acupuncture 'works'.
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Quackcast 166: What Should We Do in the Absence of Evidence?
21/09/2016There is always evidence. It just may stink on ice.
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Quackcast 167: Lyme Testimony
21/09/2016Testimony in favor of protecting 'creative' lyme doctors.
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Quackcast 168: Chiropractic Nose Balloons
21/09/2016Hobbit condoms inflated in the nose.
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Quackcast 184: Curse Removal From the Annals
21/09/2016Most SCAM are the medical equal of a curse removal.