Tag Archive: Medicine
Jun 17 2013
Tetanus? Schmetanus!!!
Part of the anti-vaccine movement’s strength is that the majority of diseases we vaccinate for are thankfully rare these days. So it’s easy for them to say “Oh! That thing? Yeah it’s harmless! Proper diet and cleanliness is what you need! Not those doctors and their knives! Bloody scaremongerers! Don’t you know they are rich! …
Jun 16 2013
An Idiot’s Guide To – Tetanus
This is a project I wanted to do for a while. Basically? Anti-Vax vs. Vaccination is a major problem in a large part of the developing world. Quackery movements in general are meshed together. And as I always say, the best ammunition against them is education. So I figure we should discuss some common diseases. …
Jun 07 2013
The Price of Medicine
When you come to your clinical years of medicine there is a big change to the way you think. You move from the classroom to the patient. Gone are the hypothetical “well behaved” patients and in come the group of people who are so varied that your text books may as well be set on …
May 06 2013
Alternative Dentistry
I required some dental work today and had an interesting conversation with the lady who was doing some work on my teeth. As many people who have seen me on the SSA hangout or on one of Ed Brayton’s, they would know that I am one of those old guys with braces. I wore them …
May 05 2013
SSA Blogathon – Marvelous Medicine
There are often some rather impressive things in medicine. For too long medicine has stagnated in achievement mainly because the new stuff that medicine needs to achieve is “hard”. Hannah Warren is a Korean toddler. She was born with tracheal agenesis which is a rare and normally fatal birth defect. For 2½ years she lived …
May 04 2013
Not the Ducks – You don’t Need Glasses
One of the strangest types of quackery I have been subject to are the rants from people about the deadly “Big Ophthalmology” and how it ruins your eyes.
May 01 2013
SSA May Day Mayhem Blogathon – Not the Ducks – You Can’t Prove It
This one’s from Jake Fern, an anti-vax advocate.
May 01 2013
SSA May Day Madness Blogathon – 9 Questions that Stump every Pro-Vaccine Advocate and their Claims
Earlier this week I came across this article written in the inappropriately named Baby Centre website. It is a reposting of another article but the original site is down. In it is a series of questions posed by David Mihalovic; ND. These questions are allegedly meant to stump “medical professionals”. It was reposted by an …
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