alternative medicine
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Skepticism
ICYMI: July 8-July 14 on the Skepchick Network
Bonjour! I’m back from CERN where I’ve finished solving all the mysteries of the universe. I would tell you what those secrets are, but the Secret World Government tells me that if I did that I’d have to kill you. So you’ll have to wait as we dole them out over the next 50 years. Stay tuned. It’s gonna be…
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Skepticism
Ask Surly Amy: Homeopathy
Dear Surly Amy, I am a college student lucky enough to have a roommate whom I love dearly. She's a wonderful friend and a very intelligent person. The only problem is that she's very into homeopathy. She grew up with it, because her mother (who is a scientist, strangely, although I know not what sort) also believes in it. She's…
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Activism
Ask Surly Amy: Cheap Health Care
Hi Amy, I live in a city where alternative medicine is a big thing. I work in safety net health care, and many of the clinics I work with offer alternative treatment. Part of my job is helping low-income or uninsured people find health care. Often, only the alternative medicine clinics are taking new patients without a six-week wait. As…
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NIH: $34 Billion Spent on sCAM Last Year
By way of Wendy Chao, Official Friend of Skepchick, comes news that a new study by the National Institutes of Health has found that Americans spent $33.9 billion on complementary and alternative medicine last year. This is such a massive number that my brain, unable to comprehend it, keeps insisting I type “million” instead of “billion.” Compared to the amount…
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That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathy
A number of people sent this one in, and for good reason (Patrick, Chris, and Sean, thanks!). This is one of the best send-ups of homeopathy I’ve ever seen . . . I laughed, I cried, I watched it three times in a row. From Brit show That Mitchell and Webb Look: Also from That Mitchell and Webb Look, here’s…
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Is There Hope for HuffPo?
Yesterday I whined about Oprah and Jenny McCarthy’s unholy union of evil and suggested that our only hope may be to convince our mothers not to watch, like at the end of Indiana Jones when all the Nazis melt. (SPOILER!) It interests me to consider the ways that we might fight back against quackery, and whether or not it’s always…
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Hot Off the Press – New Data on Homeopathy Usage Around the World
As many of you know, I run a marketing business – this means I get regular alerts on new market research and intelligence. It’s not often, though, that my business life and my skeptical interests overlap. Today, a great new study popped into my inbox. Global TGI (Target Group Index, a massive market research company) have just completed a major…
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