Manipulation, not gullibility may be driving alternatives to medicine
We hear so much about what alternatives to medicine are not doing, it’s perhaps worth pondering what they might be doing. Beyond producing a placebo effect, which I stress is nothing to sniff at, it...
View ArticleA response to the defence of chiropractic
Paul; your writings are amusing, but you have only 183 followers! My 14 year old daughter has three times that on a silly facebook page! In the spirit of genuine laziness and as one of the “waspish...
View ArticleOf chiropractic tripe and the odd zebra stripe
When we think of chiropractic and Equidae, it’s usually unicorns that come to mind. The search for the chiropractic subluxation has been as fruitful as the search for the unicorn. In fact perhaps less...
View ArticleVaccines contain no aborted fetal cells
One of the most offensive lies peddled about vaccines is that they “contain aborted foetal cells”. Consider this April 2013 screenshot from AVN Facebook: I noticed an even more absurd take when reading...
View ArticleVaccines and autism: A thorough review of the evidence
The following post is an exceptionally detailed review of the evidence, and scientific consensus, specific to the persistent claim of a link between vaccination and autism. Those familiar with the...
View ArticleConspiracy Theorists: obsessed and beyond reason
This morning I was met with the news that a train accident in Hoboken, New Jersey had left one person dead and over 100 injured. It was being described as “the worst NJ transit incident in the recent...
View ArticleDel Bigtree misleads his audience over vaccine safety testing
In a second episode dealing with the Lies of Vaxxed published by More Truth © an old standard of the anti-vaccine lobby is subject to facts. The lie Del Bigtree smothers his uncritical audience with is...
View ArticleSeven Ways to Identify Pseudoscience
Original seven ways – © Relatively Interesting The use of psychobabble – words that sound scientific and professional but are used incorrectly, or in a misleading manner; Self-help books, folk and pop...
View ArticleAustralians deserve no-nonsense regulation of chiropractors
Andrew Arnold, the Melbourne based chiropractor whose manipulation of the spine of a two week old infant was described as “deeply disturbing” by the Victorian health minister is presently refraining...
View ArticleChiropractor Simon Floreani Suspended: Lessons Learned
Fundamentalist chiropractor and career anti-vaccination activist Simon Floreani, was last week suspended from practice for six months, from 18 October 2021. The Victorian Civil and Administrative...
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