QuackCast

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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

  • Quackcast 149: That#x27s so Chiropractic

    Quackcast 149: That's so Chiropractic

    21/09/2016

    Chiropractic research and more.

  • Quackcast 150: Ebola SCAMs

    Quackcast 150: Ebola SCAMs

    21/09/2016

    Variations of homeopathy to treat Ebola

  • Quackcast 150a: Rationalizing the Ridiculous

    Quackcast 150a: Rationalizing the Ridiculous

    21/09/2016

    How do people justify offering nonsense?

  • Quackcast 151: Chaperones Needed

    Quackcast 151: Chaperones Needed

    21/09/2016

    You Docs and acupuncture: do they read the literature?

  • Quackcast 152: Placebo Speculations

    Quackcast 152: Placebo Speculations

    21/09/2016

    More on the nature of the placebo effect

  • Quackcast 153: Infinite Variety?

    Quackcast 153: Infinite Variety?

    21/09/2016

    So many kinds of acupuncture. Which one is the chosen one?

  • Quackcast 154: Why Get A Flu Shot?

    Quackcast 154: Why Get A Flu Shot?

    21/09/2016

    A quick review of the benefits of the flu vaccine.

  • Quackcast 155: In the Spirit of Choosing Wisely

    Quackcast 155: In the Spirit of Choosing Wisely

    21/09/2016

    How to choose a SCAM wisely.

  • Quackcast 156: Homeotoxicology

    Quackcast 156: Homeotoxicology

    21/09/2016

    Another odd from of homeopathy.

  • Quackcast 157: Acupunture Odds and Ends

    Quackcast 157: Acupunture Odds and Ends

    21/09/2016

    Some recent acupuncture articles evaluated.

  • Quackcast 158: Mel asks and I do my best to answer.

    Quackcast 158: Mel asks and I do my best to answer.

    21/09/2016

    An acupuncturist has questions. I try and answer.

  • Quackcast 159: Gut Check

    Quackcast 159: Gut Check

    21/09/2016

    Update on probiotics.

  • Quackcast 161: Traditional Chinese Pseudo-Medicine Hodgepodge

    Quackcast 161: Traditional Chinese Pseudo-Medicine Hodgepodge

    21/09/2016

    A variety of studies reviewed.

  • Quackcast 163: Lyme: Two Worlds Compared and Contrasted

    Quackcast 163: Lyme: Two Worlds Compared and Contrasted

    21/09/2016

    Comparing the approach of the IDSA with ILADS. Who will reign supreme?

  • Quackcast 164: FDA and Homeopathy: Part Two.

    Quackcast 164: FDA and Homeopathy: Part Two.

    21/09/2016

    Friends, 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

  • Quackcast 165: Mediocre Expectations

    Quackcast 165: Mediocre Expectations

    21/09/2016

    More on on acupuncture 'works'.

  • Quackcast 166: What Should We Do in the Absence of Evidence?

    Quackcast 166: What Should We Do in the Absence of Evidence?

    21/09/2016

    There is always evidence. It just may stink on ice.

  • Quackcast 167: Lyme Testimony

    Quackcast 167: Lyme Testimony

    21/09/2016

    Testimony in favor of protecting 'creative' lyme doctors.

  • Quackcast 168: Chiropractic Nose Balloons

    Quackcast 168: Chiropractic Nose Balloons

    21/09/2016

    Hobbit condoms inflated in the nose.

  • Quackcast 184: Curse Removal From the Annals

    Quackcast 184: Curse Removal From the Annals

    21/09/2016

    Most SCAM are the medical equal of a curse removal.

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