PODCAST

Sysiphus Speaks

Mark Crislip

The Podcast of the Society for Science-Based Medicine

science & medicine

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Sisyphus Speaks 374: California Naturopathic Doctors...

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So, was the CNDA warning its members not to engage in such potentially dangerous quack practices? Did it condemn ozone therapy and auto-hemotherapy as bogus? Not at all. The CNDA's only concern seems to be that these treatments might be outside the naturopathic scope of practice.

Sisyphus Speaks 373: Public Hearing On Acupuncture...

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Oregon considered a rule to make acupuncture safer. The decided against it.

Sisyphus Speaks 372: Corrigendum. The Week in Review....

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Death from vaccine preventable infections. Homeopathy and acupuncture do not work. There is a difference between cost and worth. And more.

Sisyphus Speaks 371: Money: Well Spent and Wasted

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A comprehensive review of medical advances from NCCAM funding. It's a short podcast.

Sisyphus Speaks 370: FDA issues consumer update on...

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FDA lab tests found that nearly 300 of dietary supplements marketed for ED contain undisclosed drug ingredients.Three hundred!

Sisyphus Speaks 369: Corrigendum. The Week in Review....

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Death from naturopathy. Cows and soldiers have a similar problem. Pseudo-medicines never die. Chiropractic complications. And more.

Sisyphus Speaks 368: Asthma and Acupuncture. Why Even...

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The lack of a significant difference between the sham and real acupuncture treatments also prevented us from deducing the effectiveness of real acupuncture. Really. Why did they even bother?

Sisyphus Speaks 367: Corrigendum. The Week in Review...

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What happened this week? Measles returns to kill. Stem cell injections blind. Lousy acupuncture studies. Fire hot. Skinny jeans are not a reason to see a chiropractor. Lesbian tendencies do not respond to homeopathy. And more.

Sisyphus Speaks 366: Bending Sceince-This will not...

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I tend to see some issues through the lens of of how it will play in the world of pseudo-medicines. So when I saw "Bending the Rules of Science Can Save Lives, Says Fauci" over at Medscape (where I am a paid blogger) I cringed.

Sisyphus Speaks 365: Corrigendum. The Week in Review...

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Waiting for a vaccine-preventable infection. More lousy acupuncture studies. Medical students interested in homeopathy are not as strong at science. Water wet. TCPM consuming donkeys. What the FDA does, and doesn’t do, for now. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/corrigendum-the-week-in-review-for-03122017/

Sisyphus Speaks 364: FDA: what (if anything) does...

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To date, the FDA has refused to wade into the murky waters of trying to determine just what "natural" means. Now, however, consumers, the food industry and the courts are asking the FDA to define "natural" and the FDA wants your help.

Sisyphus Speaks 363: Blind Pig Finds Acorn....

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A patient with a history of migraine presented with transient visual loss to the ER, they blame it on migraine. 2 days later she goes to a chiropractor with neck pain pain and the chiropractor thinks about vertebral artery dissection and gets an MRI to confirm the diagnosis

Sisyphus Speaks 362: Corrigendum. The week in review...

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Canada’s Bad Science Wants You. Penguins get acupuncture, tiger cubs get chiropractic. Homeopathic lead for lead toxicity. And more

Sisyphus Speaks 361: Will Massachusetts legitimize...

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Sisyphus Speaks 360: Corrigendum. The Week in Review...

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Mumps cases, like an infected parotid gland, grow. Acupuncture graduates will not have gainful employment. Hypno-Reiki. The one true cause of all disease. And more.

Sisyphus Speaks 359: Corrigendum. The Week in Review...

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More poorly done acupuncture studies. Burzynski eats just desserts. Italians like homeopathy. New Jersey is going after Oregon. And more

Sisyphus Speaks 358: No Acupuncture on Infants and...

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Acupuncture has long been popular in China but there are differences between its practice in the West and East, as 'Big needles, small bodies'—the absence of acupuncture treatment for infants in contemporary Shanghai: a qualitative study makes clear. At the Longhau Hospital acupuncture clinic it was noted there were no infants and very few children seen in the acupuncture clinic. They wondered why…

Sisyphus Speaks 357: FDA lists companies fraudulently...

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Dietary supplements, on the other hand, don't go through any pre-market approval process to determine safety and efficacy. They are limited to nebulous "structure and function" claims and are supposed to have substantiating evidence for those claims somewhere in their files, although they don't have to share that information with the FDA or the public. I suppose if you are going to make illegal claims, you might as well go for the big time.

Sisyphus Speaks 356: Corrigendum. The Week in Review....

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The week in review. Chiropractic and stroke. Integrative Medical doctors don’t trust vaccines. Death from medical marijuana. Shilajit: compost or mulch oozing from Himalayan rocks. India goes full Tuskeegee with AIDS. And more

Sysiphus Speaks 395: Let The Infections Continue

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The results are in from the hearing to adopt a rule in Oregon thatwould require Oregon licensees practicing acupuncture to follow clean needle technique and require the use of only disposable, single-use acupuncture needles. It was decided not to adopt the rule

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