Rational Medicine?
Evidence-based medicine, or EBM, is the current gold standard for clinical regulations. To its practitioners, it seems obvious that medicine should be based on the “best” evidence. Furthermore, they...
View ArticleRational Patients
What the medical system needs is rational patients. Rational patients ask for the relevant information and make their own judgements. For some strange reason some medical professionals believe that...
View ArticleRainbow Bear Returns
Recently, the mainstream media described the results of a request to put a health claim on bottled water. The manufacturers wished to claim that drinking water prevents dehydration. Specifically, they...
View ArticleEvery Good Doctor
Every Good Doctor Must Represent the Patient: The Malfunction of Evidence-Based Medicine by Daniel L. Scholten The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS) released this paper on cybernetics in...
View ArticleNeither Good Evidence nor Good Medicine
Evidence-Based Medicine: Neither Good Evidence nor Good Medicine by Steve Hickey, PhD and Hilary Roberts, PhD Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the practice of treating individual patients based on the...
View ArticleThe 100 Trillion Dollar Prize for Medicine
(OMNS April 19, 2012) Here is your chance to impress your colleagues holding mere Nobel Prizes: the Newlyn Research Group announces the Cargo-Cult Prize for Medical Informatics. At 100 Trillion...
View ArticleFukushima Radiation Protection
Antioxidants and particularly sulphur containing antioxidants can protect against the free radical damage of ionising radiation. The following video was made by The Japanese Collage of Intravenous...
View ArticleShould You Be Allowed To Make A Rational Decision?
A law might condemn intelligent and educated patients to being ill-informed and unable to make rational decisions about their own cancer. For this law to be valid, however, we need to assume all cancer...
View ArticleOops – They Got It Wrong (and will not admit it)
Mainstream medicine branded Linus Pauling a pseudo-scientific quack for suggesting that people required mega-doses of vitamin C for good health. This attack was despite Pauling being a leading...
View ArticleAntioxidants and Cancer
New Scientist magazine has just reported the claim by James Watson that antioxidants promote cancer growth (Nobel-winner Watson: Do antioxidants promote cancer?). They did not mention that these ideas...
View ArticleSurviving Ebola!
Steve Hickey PhD and Hilary Roberts PhD Emerging diseases, such as Ebola, pose an increasing risk to health as the virus adapts, allowing it to spread in the human population. People are...
View ArticleReally Bad Science
The media often feeds people misinformation about medical science. Leading the deception are the so-called skeptics who claim to be hard-headed scientists. One leading promoter of skeptic “science” is...
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