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 127: Pump it up: osteopathic manipulation and influenza]()
Quackcast 127: Pump it up: osteopathic manipulation and influenza
21/09/2016Concerning osteopathic manipulation to treat influenza.
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![Quackcast 128: SCAM Stud]()
Quackcast 128: SCAM Stud
21/09/2016Where we see that Food Babe writes about the flu vaccine and gets it completely wrong.
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![Quackcast 129: Alternative Microbiology]()
Quackcast 129: Alternative Microbiology
21/09/2016Weirdness in the world of microbiology and infectious diseases.
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![Quackcast 130: Irritated by the Skeptical Inquirer. Again.]()
Quackcast 130: Irritated by the Skeptical Inquirer. Again.
21/09/2016A Mike Adams impersonator writes for SI
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![Quackcast 131: 4 out of 5 Americans don#x27t understand statistics.]()
Quackcast 131: 4 out of 5 Americans don't understand statistics.
21/09/2016p of 0.05 is not so significant after all
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![Quackcast 132: Acupuncture Wack a Mole]()
Quackcast 132: Acupuncture Wack a Mole
21/09/2016More lousy acupuncture studies mis-interpreted.
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![Quackcast 133: SFSBM Announcement]()
Quackcast 133: SFSBM Announcement
21/09/2016Announcing the Society for Science-Based Medicine
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![Quackcast 135: I Visited a Chickasaw Healer and All I Got Was an Elk Sinew and Buffalo Horn Bracelet]()
Quackcast 135: I Visited a Chickasaw Healer and All I Got Was an Elk Sinew and Buffalo Horn Bracelet
21/09/2016More humor from the Altlantic Monthly, except they were not trying to be funny.
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![Quackcast 136: Motivations]()
Quackcast 136: Motivations
21/09/2016Why we do what we do.
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![Quackcast 137: #x201cI want to draw your attention to a special added attraction not advertised on the outside#x201d#x2a#xa]()
Quackcast 137: “I want to draw your attention to a special added attraction not advertised on the outside”*
21/09/2016A review of earthing.
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![Quackcast 138: Acupuncture Vignettes]()
Quackcast 138: Acupuncture Vignettes
21/09/2016A hodgepodge of acupuncture studies.
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![Quackcast 139: Agnotology: The Study of Ignorance]()
Quackcast 139: Agnotology: The Study of Ignorance
21/09/2016Ignorance is more complicated than bliss.
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![Quackcast 140: Hickey]()
Quackcast 140: Hickey
21/09/2016Cupping
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![Quackcast 141: Moxibustion]()
Quackcast 141: Moxibustion
21/09/2016Moxibustion: a good way to get a second degree burn.
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![Quackcast 142: Cochrane Reviews: The Food Babe of Medicine?]()
Quackcast 142: Cochrane Reviews: The Food Babe of Medicine?
21/09/2016The Cochrane reviews: goofy and disingenuous.
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![Quackcast 144: Astrology#x2c Alchemy#x2c ESP and Reiki. One Of These Is Not Like The Other]()
Quackcast 144: Astrology, Alchemy, ESP and Reiki. One Of These Is Not Like The Other
21/09/2016Medicine embraces nonsense other fields avoid.
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![Quackcast 145: TCM Hodgepodge]()
Quackcast 145: TCM Hodgepodge
21/09/2016Traditional Chinese Medicine Update.
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![Quackcast 146: The Truth?]()
Quackcast 146: The Truth?
21/09/2016Why do major medical institutions lie to their patients?
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![Quackcast 147: Why People Continue to Use SCAMs]()
Quackcast 147: Why People Continue to Use SCAMs
21/09/2016Some research on why people are mislead by their experience.
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![Quackcast 148: Yet another plague panic]()
Quackcast 148: Yet another plague panic
21/09/2016Ebola is the least of our worries
