Posts Under ‘alternative medicine’ Category

A Novel Cancer Cure?

July 12, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative health, alternative medicine, cancer | 2 comments

https://onemillionjourney.com/fi-ratio-pi/ Some stories peddled on Twitter are beyond ridiculous. Man’s tumor shrinks when he alters environment, shuns cancer treatments in favor of acts of kindness: http://t.co/79ua1XrLTP — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) July 11, 2014 This particular one, published at the website run by Mike Adams, the self-described consumer health advocate (who I have written about here and here),…Continue Reading…

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Mike Adams, AKA the 'Health Ranger,' Wants Some Respect

May 16, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative health, alternative medicine, science | 65 comments

Buy Zanaflex Online Without Prescription In my previous post, I reported on legal threats recently made by Mike Adams against Forbes and one of its contributing writers, Jon Entine, who oversees the Genetic Literacy Project. Entine is hardly the first science writer/blogger to shine a spotlight on Adams, whose penchant for raw foods, alternative health treatments and various outlandish conspiracy…Continue Reading…

Mike Adams, the Alt Medicine Purveyor Who Calls himself the 'Health Ranger,' Threatens to Sue Forbes and Writer

May 16, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative health, alternative medicine, GMOs, science, science journalism, select | 34 comments

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A New Low for Dr. Oz: Promoting Mike Adams

May 13, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative medicine, science | 112 comments

https://onemillionjourney.com/not-saving-fire/ Unlike some in the science blogosphere, I haven’t found it worthwhile to write much about Mike Adams, whose conspiracy-laden screeds and paeans to raw foods and unproven alternative medicine treatments appear on a website of his called Natural News. (I have briefly discussed Adams on one previous occasion.) Here’s an apt description from David Gorski: His website is a one-stop shop, a repository…Continue Reading…

Get Off My Cloud, Lowlife Spirits

August 28, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative medicine, New Age, science, select | 5 comments

https://masculinidades.org/taller-sobre-masculinidades-puerto-quito/ Why do people turn to alternative medicine? After posing this question last year, Steven Novella said it’s not because western medicine is failing. Rather, he explained, many people have personal experiences with illness and health care, and personal experience can have a powerful influence on our beliefs (even if we are generally science and evidence-based…Continue Reading…

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Gary Null, Cultivator of Dangerous Woo, Plants Seeds of Death

May 31, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative health, alternative medicine, biotechnology, denialism, Gary Null, GMOs, pseudoscience, select | 85 comments

https://drreddyfamilydoctors.com/womans-health/ There was a time when Gary Null, a popular alternative health speaker and author, was the Deepak Chopra of nutrition. He’s written best-selling books (one of them about reversing the aging process) and like Chopra, has been featured by PBS during fundraising drives. Nearing 70, Null was in the news several years ago when he sued…Continue Reading…

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Funky Medicine

February 17, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative medicine, music | 1 comment

https://www.munshinegroup.com/embracing-lifelong-learning/ If you know anyone who swears by acupuncture, homeopathy, or any other unproven treatments that fall under the alternative medicine rubric, then you know there is no dissuading them with a science-based argument. What matters most to alternative health devotees is their own personal experiences and the people they trust–like Dr. Oz, Oprah, Prince Charles,…Continue Reading…

Why Science Fails to Persuade

January 24, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative medicine, homeopathy, science, science communication, select | 1 comment

https://trefoilcareservices.com.au/services/ One of the big reasons why evidence-based arguments so often fail to persuade is that people turn to their own trusted sources for information. For example, I know that Vandana Shiva is peddling a load of horseshit about Indian farmers committing suicide en masse supposedly because of Monsanto and GMOs. (There’s a part of me…Continue Reading…

The Downside of Openness

October 21, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in alternative medicine, Steve Jobs | 20 comments

Chris Mooney finds much to admire with this list of Steve Jobs revelations, leaked from Walter Isaacson’s forthcoming biography: He gave up Christianity at age 13 when he saw starving children on the cover of Life magazine. (AP) * He was returning from an apple farm on one of his fruitarian diets when he chose the name…Continue Reading…