After Mark and I took apart Mike Adams' misinformation- and logical fallacy-filled rant of idiocy against conventional medicine, it appeared that there was still some left to take on.
Fortunately, Dr. RW took up the slack.
Because when the woo-meister is as idiotic as Mike Adams, too much debunking is never enough.
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[This is a very long post, a reply to Orac's (my respected SciBling at Respectful Insolence) equally long response to my also long original post that invited him to tell us what he thought separated his brand of medicine from the "alties" he frequently posts about. Probably most of you won't have…
Gregg Mitman's article in the September 17th New England Journal of Medicine, "Ebola in a Stew of Fear," is unfortunately all too prescient. Dr. Mitman highlighted "the ecology of fear" in Western Africa. Fear is present on both the part of Westerners (scared of Africa's yellow fever, malaria,…
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However, there is never a shortage of crankery from Mike Adams who asserts Microwave ovens destroy the nutritional value of your food. There may be too much idiocy here to address but let's get started.
The rise of widespread nutritional deficiencies in the western world correlates almost…
The latest crankery from Adams is the evil male-chauvinist conspiracy to perpetuate breast cancer for fun and profit being led by none other than those dastardly villains of the American Cancer Society. With his stunning report and links to the thinkbeforeyoupink campaign, he rails against the…
Mike Adams is also a censor. I wrote a fairly gentle rebuke in the comments to his blog, and he never posted it. I had wondered why all the comments were fawning over his brilliance and thanking him for writing such beautiful poetry (I exaggerate - barely). But it helps when you edit out any comments that don't fall in that category.
Go ahead and try to comment on his blog - it will say "Post will show up in a day or two", but a good week later - nothing.
Taken from Mr. Adams column:
"Conventional medicine is almost entirely justified by truly bad science. And yet so-called skeptics, who are supposed to exercise clear thinking about all subjects, never seem to question the fraudulent science behind prescription drugs. The mass drugging of children for fictitious diseases, for example, seems to be okay with such skeptics, who are too busy bashing homeopathy and acupuncture to take an honest, critical look at the junk science behind prescription drugs, it seems.
Whoaaaaaa!!!!
The mass drugging of children for fictitious diseases??????
If my wife had a dime for everytime she had a parent of one of her Special Ed children that would say something like, I don't want my child on those drugs (i.e. ridelin etc.), or it will stunt thier growth or any number of statements, then they appear at another IEP meeting and say that they are considering chelation therapy or some such thing.
There is a real issue here with sorting through fact and sorting through the sometimes overly emotional fixation of parents. Its an easy sell to people that are predisposed to quakery or any other option that suggests that medication may be "just another conventional profit margin.
Rather than visit Mr. Adams' blog, you might as well visit the website of the world's foremost authority, Professor Irwin Corey...
http://www.irwincorey.org/audio.html
More or less completely off topic, Orac, you really need to see this for your FDOW: The Healthy Lifestyle Chi Waveguard... Protect yourself against electromagnetic fields! They is everywhere! No mention of anything "quantum," so it's not Grade A No. 1 Pure Cold-Pressed Virgin Woo, but pretty darn close.