Synopsis
A review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. Thats not right. That should be Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. SCAMs. Winner in 2009, 2010, and 2011 of The Peoples Choice Podcast Awards for Best Health Podcast. A side project of Pusware LLC, home of the Infectious DIsease Compendium: A Persiflagers Guide, your uber hyperlinked guide to Infectious Disease, the Persiflagers Infectious Disease Puscast and a Gobbet o Pus.
Episodes
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![QuackCast 25. Fungi Shui]()
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![QuackCast 26. Alternative Aviation]()
QuackCast 26. Alternative Aviation
21/09/2016Recycled material from the Scienced Based Medicine Blog. Green and copyright 2008, Pusware LLC.
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![Quackcast 27. Acupuncture and Chiropractic Update]()
Quackcast 27. Acupuncture and Chiropractic Update
21/09/2016A review of Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine ie SCAMS. Copywrite 2008, Pusware LLC under creative commons. This podcasts reviews 2 papers on acupuncture and pain, and one on chiropractic and stroke.
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![QuackCast 28. Vitamin C and the Common Cold]()
QuackCast 28. Vitamin C and the Common Cold
21/09/2016Because the Peter Principle rules, millions were spent to demonstrate clearly that Vitamin C has minimal effects on the common cold. Someone needs to return his Nobel prize. Copyright 2008, Creative Commons.
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![QuackCast 29. Reiki and Theraputic Touch]()
QuackCast 29. Reiki and Theraputic Touch
21/09/2016Energy Therapies abound in SCAM’s. Here are two. Reiki and Therapeutic Touch. Copyright 2008, Creative Commons.
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![Quackcast 30. Lets Kill The Children or A Defense of Vaccines.]()
Quackcast 30. Lets Kill The Children or A Defense of Vaccines.
21/09/2016Why vaccines, to quote Mr. Pooh, "Are a Good Thing."
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![Quackcast 31. Green our SCAM.]()
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![Quackcast 32. Huffpo. 32 Sentences and 57 taradiddles.]()
Quackcast 32. Huffpo. 32 Sentences and 57 taradiddles.
21/09/2016How many taradiddles can a single post contain?
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![Quackcast 34. Flu Woo for You.]()
Quackcast 34. Flu Woo for You.
21/09/2016A tediously long exposition on but a fraction of the flu woo.
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![Quackcast 35. Flu vaccine efficacy. Plus 18 taradiddles.]()
Quackcast 35. Flu vaccine efficacy. Plus 18 taradiddles.
21/09/2016Does the flu vaccine work? Is the earth an oblate spheroid? Yep. Find out how we know (the vaccine, not the earth). Plus 18 flu related taradiddles.
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![Quackcast 36. Hi Ho Silver.]()
Quackcast 36. Hi Ho Silver.
21/09/2016The data to support the use of colloidal silver is less than WMD's in Iraq.
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![Quackcast 37. Acai.]()
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![Quackcast 38. Mesotherapy.]()
Quackcast 38. Mesotherapy.
21/09/2016Do you really think injecting artichoke into your skin will make fat go away? Really?
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![Quackcast 39. Measles Update.]()
Quackcast 39. Measles Update.
21/09/2016The MMR doesn’t cause autism. Duh. But it does protect from autism. WTH?
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![Quackcast 40. Literature update. Chiropractic and Ginkgo.]()
Quackcast 40. Literature update. Chiropractic and Ginkgo.
21/09/2016Quackcast 40. Literature update. Chiropractic and Ginkgo.
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![Quackcast 41. YOU#x2c acupuncture and the military.]()
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![Quackcast 42. The Tamiflu spin.]()
Quackcast 42. The Tamiflu spin.
21/09/2016Atlantis, er, I mean the Atlantic discusses the use of Tamiflu and is as reliable as Plato.
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![Quackcast 44. Nine questions#x2c nine answers.]()
Quackcast 44. Nine questions, nine answers.
21/09/2016An ND suggests there are 9 questions that pro-vaccine proponents can't answer. Ha. My 12 year old can find the answers.
