That's not all @ClevelandClinic offers. It also offers craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, and acupuncture to children. It even offers the “energy medicine” quackery that is “therapeutic touch” to babies. 7/
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I wrote a Perspective article about the quackery infiltrating academic medicine for
@NatureRevCancer. Maybe I need to write an update. 18/https://www.nature.com/articles/nrc3822 …Show this thread -
Everywhere, physicians are embracing the quackery of acupuncture, even though it's never been shown to be more than a theatrical placebo. 19/https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/fulltext/2013/06000/Acupuncture_Is_Theatrical_Placebo.25.aspx …
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Indeed, the entire history of traditional Chinese medicine has been retconned. What we know as TCM is not ancient. Chairman Mao invented it. 20/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/retconning-traditional-chinese-medicine/ …
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Meanwhile, credulous physicians are indoctrinated into believing in pseudoscience. 21/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-integrative-oncology-scholars-program/ …
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And this doesn't even count the proliferation of for-profit stem cell clinics, the vast majority of which are physician-run, all of which sell rank quackery. 22/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dubious-for-profit-stem-cell-clinics-co-opting-clinicaltrials-gov-as-a-marketing-tool/ …
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@AustinChiangMD and others in@AHSM_org, here's what I want to know. What do you mean by "combatting medical misinformation"? As incredibly hard as they are, antivax and cancer quackery are easy. Combatting the infiltration of quackery into medicine is MUCH harder. 23/Show this thread -
I guess what I'm saying is: Beware mixed messages. It's all well and good to combat, for instance, antivax misinformation and
@goop. Just be consistent and don’t promote integrative quackery. 24/Show this thread -
Advocate for the most rigorous science feasible in determining the standard of care in medicine, and then communicate it while opposing all firms of pseudoscience and bad science. 25/25
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