And the descent into quackery of @ClevelandClinic continues unabated. Functional medicine is quackery. Period. 1/https://twitter.com/CleClinicMD/status/997182461892116480 …
For one thing, "functional medicine" is a the biggest misnomer in "integrative medicine" (which is itself a misnomer). It is not functional, nor is it really medicine, other than bad medicine. 2/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-the-ultimate-misnomer-in-the-world-of-integrative-medicine/ …
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Functional medicine as actually practiced is a disaster of "make shit up as you go along" flailing involving the worst of both worlds: Massive overtesting that at times plagues conventional medicine plus quackery "integrated" into integrative medicine. 3/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-in-practice/ …
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Hilariously,
@ClevelandClinic's own genetics experts have condemned the non-science-based genetic testing routinely ordered by functional medicine quacks. 4/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cleveland-clinic-genetic-experts-call-out-functional-medicine-on-worthless-genetic-testing-and-supplement-prescribing/ …Show this thread -
The bottom line:
@clevelandclinic and@CleClinicMD are, unfortunately, a foremost example of quackademic medicine in action and how "integrating" pseudoscience in the form of "integrative medicine" poisons the scientific basis of medicine. 5/5Show this thread
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