Home birth Anecdotes
The following material pertains to this thread. I wasn’t expecting the kind of backlash against a genuine problem that women face. Not just the denunciation of women who utilise real medicine but the...
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Immunity? Easy Peasy…. Lemon Squeezie
Kylie over at the Token Skeptic is poking fun at the Anti-Vax. Her literature is cool but I know something that is lacking in skeptic land. One of the major problems with the vaccination movement is...
View ArticleStill Angry But Here are Some Results…
So It’s been more than a week since I started asking people two questions… And here are some answers… 1. What is the Most Common Genetic Disorder? The Most common disorder in humans was an interesting...
View ArticleNot the Ducks! – ENT Ain’t Nothing to Fuck With
So why does quackery get a free ride? Well IMHO the major problem is that especially in the USA, drug companies are allowed to flog non-OTC (over the counter) medications to customers. Quackery is...
View ArticleNot the Ducks! – India.com and Cancer Quackery
There exists a massive problem in India and that is the notion of western medicine. There is medicine and there is quackery. Vaccination is an eastern form of medicine but it is still used because it...
View ArticleUteruses Do Not Work That Way
Swanson: I’m beginning to get some evidence from certain doctors and certain scientists that have done research on women’s wombs after they’ve gone through the surgery, and they’ve compared the wombs...
View ArticlePart 1 – An Explanation for Vaccination
This is something I have worked on for a while. As you guys may remember I wrote a piece on an “Easy Explanation of Immunology” a while back. And I noticed one of the comments. I apparently didn’t set...
View ArticleVaccination Part 2 – Old Wives Tales About Vaccines and the Effect of Anti-Vax
Part 2 in this three part series will deal with old wives tales. In the (nearly 2 years) I have been blogging, I have run across all manner of (to me at least) wacky misconceptions about vaccines. So I...
View ArticleFaith, Abortion and the Hippocratic Oath – Mississippi
Mississippi has not much to be proud of. It’s the state that leads the US rankings in teenage pregnancy rate due to a juxtaposition of faith, economics and social issues. It’s a state proud of it’s...
View ArticlePart 3 – Questions about Vaccines Answered
So to end my three part expansion on vaccination which started with Why we Should Be Vaccinated and then listed some common Fallacies along with a primer on immunology, I have a “little” piece on the...
View ArticleJohn Stumbles – Measles
I am a total noob to this and still get excited when people link to my work and think it’s good… But this one blew me away. If you want to see something really cool with regards to vaccination, check...
View ArticleReducing Abortion
Richard M. Doerflinger’s article on Washington Post has me intrigued. How do you reduce abortion? From a medical standpoint? Abortion can be a medical or a surgical procedure, each with specific risks....
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Something for the Men
I think before I start… Special thanks are in order. For all the people who laughed at my alleged bankruptcy due to not getting to speak at any conferences (If you knew how they worked then speaking at...
View ArticleA Cure for AIDS
If you haven’t already read the news then I suggest you do so. Yes, apparently a cocktail of anti-virals has helped regress making the grand total of HIV patients cured a whopping two. It is progress...
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MRA thinks Women in Medicine are a Waste of Time
We shouldn’t train women to be doctors! Says Angry Harry. Thank You Luthor! My opinion is as above. Doctors are a weird bunch. In most of the world the profession has been blown wide open by the...
View ArticleVaccination and The Age
If you haven’t read The Age’s take on alternative medicine, you should totally do so. It is absolutely terrifying that Alt. Med has gone after people who have cancer with promises of a “natural” cure....
View ArticleVaccines – Educative Ignorance
Apparently I am “broken”. My medical education means one thing… That I am now officially in the claws of the medical system! Everyone tells me how incomplete my education is. From Chiropractors who...
View ArticleHelp the Real Vampires, Be a Hero!
I know it’s a silly title but there are people who need blood to live. Want to be a hero? Most of us can do this. Give blood. It doesn’t matter where you live, donate if you can. I have donated to...
View ArticleThieves of Potential
Let’s call him V. V is 12 years old and came to see me today. And V is a classic example of “chronic starvation“. V’s got two sisters and a brother who are at school. They will be coming in tomorrow...
View ArticleUnclean!
A bill in Kansas which could theoretically allow the forcible quarantine of those who suffer from HIV/AIDS. Ignore the spin on the article, it’s fantastic but the law in question allows for the...
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