A podcast review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. Thats not right. That should be Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. SCAM.
A review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. Thats not right. That should be Supplements , Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. SCAM.
Winner of the 2009 Podcast Award for best Health/Fitness Podcast. Well deserved, if I do say so myself.
“Ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.”
-Thomas Jefferson (on a different topic)
A list of the podcasts in mp3 format is on the Podcast List page.
The mp3's, as a blog, are on the Standard Podcast (mp3) page, with the rss link on the bottom right.
mp3 rss feed: http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/mp3rss.xml
The enhanced podcasts, m4a's, are on the Enhanced podcast (m4a) page, with the rss link on the bottom right.m4a rss feed: http://www.quackcast.com/epodcasts/files/rss.xml
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A side project of Pusware LLC, and Mark Crislip, publishers of the Persiflagers Annotated Compendium of Infectious Disease Facts, Dogma and Opinion, your uber hyperlinked electronic guide to Infectious Disease.Available at www.pusware.com
Includes the Persiflagers Puscast, a mostly bimonthly review of the Infectious Disease literature, with commentary. CME accredited. On iTunes.
As well as Rubor, Dolor, Calor Tumor, a blog about infectious diseases at Medscape, the coolyest subspeciality in medicine.
And A Gobbet o' Pus . My ID podcast blog.
Also try the Science Based Medicine Blog, where I am an occasional contributor. I run quite the little mutimedia empire. Because the world needs more Mark Crislip (tm).
Warning: This is not a balanced review. Most, if not all, of CAM is profoundly moronic. There my be two sides to gun control and foreign policy but in the sciences, including the medical sciences, either you have the data or you do not. You don’t include flat earth theories in discussions of the geology and you do not include intelligent design in discussions of the origin of life. This is my side.
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, nor to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
Baruch Spinoza
This does not apply to me. I am a member of the “reality based community”. Ridicule, bewailing, and scorn are my favorite techniques. I am an arrogant, closed minded, Western trained, tool of the medical industrial complex. And proud of it.
BTW: someone noted my name was no where on the site. It is in the copyright, but this website is all by Mark Crislip.