Denialism

Author: MarkH

  • A cup of…?

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    As I continue to fight the good fight against my first respiratory infection of the season, I will serve you a few portions of learnin’ from the old blog. –PalMD Cupping goes back millennia. In the U.S., the marks of cupping are often seen in immigrant communities, particularly those from Southeast Asia, and are often…

  • Diabetic foot disease

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    As I continue to fight the good fight against my first respiratory infection of the season, I will serve you a few portions of learnin’ from the old blog. –PalMD We’ve spoken a bit lately of the micro- and macrovascular complications of diabetes. Let’s see what that means in real life. One of the most…

  • Best post ever!!!!!

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    OK, not really. I’ve been felled by my first respiratory virus of the season and I’m not up to doing anything beyond getting through the day, so there may not be many new posts from me for a bit.

  • I’m a holistic doctor

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    Ok, I know I’ve been digging up old posts lately, but it’s because I love them so darn much. Thanks for your indulgence. –PalMD That’s apparently all it takes to be a “Holistic” practitioner. I’ve been searching online for their medical board, or for any consistent definition of “holistic medicine”. What’s involved? Where do I…

  • The Times doesn’t know Bayes

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    If you’ve spent any time at all reading science and medicine blogs, you know that many of us are quite critical of the way the traditional media covers science. The economics of the business allows for fewer and fewer dedicated science and medical journalists. In the blogosphere, writers have a certain freedom—-the freedom not to…

  • Open Lab 08

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    Bora and his crack team of editors are working on Open Laboratory 08, a collection of the year’s best writing on ScienceBlogs. Head over there and nominate some stuff, from this blog and others. That is all.

  • Profiting from others’ suffering—the difference between skeptical doctors and crooks

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    Morgellons “disease” is not a disease in any classic sense. There are no agreed-upon definitions of a case, so all else is meaningless. That being said, people are suffering. Since they feel ignored by doctors, they seek help elsewhere. It’s a problem in thinking, in some ways. When you don’t feel well, you should seek…

  • Were the ancients fools?

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    I’m off to the west coast (of Michigan) for a few days, and if I don’t blog, I shall die…or something. So I have a few posts from my old blog to share with you. Often in the discussion of cult medicines such as homeopathy, acupuncture, and reiki, supporters fall back on “the wisdom of…

  • Immune to reality

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    I’m off to the west coast (of Michigan) for a few days, and if I don’t blog, I shall die…or something. So I have a few posts from my old blog to share with you. Sure, we all have our biases about food and health. I think chicken soup is great when you’re sick—but not…

  • False equality

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    I’m off to the west coast (of Michigan) for a few days, and if I don’t blog, I shall die…or something. So I have a few posts from my old blog to share with you. As my child approaches school age, I worry about school board battles a little bit more. I hate politics, but…