Tag: Quackery
Dead Wild Roses: Send This Open Letter to The Alberta Medical Association – They defend the quackery that is “Gender Affirming Care”
Thank you to Our Duty Canada for composing this letter. An Open Letter to the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) Regarding the February 1st Statement from the AMA Section of Pediatrics on gender-affirming treatments March 2024 On February 1, 2024 your association released a statement in response to Alberta Premiere
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Hammer of Accountability is Coming – Tildeb from Questionable Motives
There is going to be an accountability crisis in our institutions. They have knowingly and actively participated in medical practices (Gender Affirming Care) that have little to no evidence of their efficacy and plenty of evidence of their harm. The lawsuits are just around the corner as children are still
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The WPATH Files – Medical Malpractice – Pgs 33 – 34
Get the WPATH files here. This is big folks. The WPATH files show exactly how unscientific gender medicine is. It is a travesty that a ‘professional association’ could be so irresponsible. But see for yourself. Link to the analysis.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The WPATH Files – The Beginning of the End of the Farce of ‘Gender Affirming Care’.
Transgender ideology is based on lies and emotional coercion. Very effective lies and coercion mind you – enough to make doctors forget about the “do no harm” part of their medical training and instead take up gender-woo and non evidence based medical practices. So here it is – the beginning
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Jason Kenny – Letting The False Populist Science Deniers Make Public Health Policy
Jason Kenny the Premier of Alberta is making the definitive case for the Federal Government to take over handling public health decisions during a pandemic event. Captain Clownshow is making noises about ending public health measures early (*again* – Open for SUMMER!!!?!). “Premier Jason Kenney said that a plan to
Continue readingScripturient: Brandolini’s Law
Ever had the frustrating experience trying to correct someone’s obviously un-factual post or meme on Facebook? And found yourself in a swamp of comments all telling you you’re wrong, an idiot, it’s just your opinion, it worked for my friend so it’s true, or you don’t know anything, followed by
Continue readingScripturient: What is science? It’s not this stuff.
Recently in a Facebook post, two of us were squabbling in typical Facebook-fashion over “alternative medicine” and related treatments (many of which came into the discussion as links to pseudoscience and/or charlatan’s websites). As is my wont, I continued to debunk these with links to actual medical sites and discussions
Continue readingScripturient: Raw water: the New Age death wish
Would you willingly expose yourself to cholera? While treatable, this highly infectious disease causes great physical distress and suffering to its victims, and is even fatal to some. Most readers have never experienced it because it’s rather a rarity in developed nations, those that have the benefit of modern water
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Does He Do That? – Lundy Bancroft – On Freud and Incest
Ever find a spot where you could pinpoint where something went wrong and broke-shit on such a massive scale that the damage is still being undone? See Freud on incest… “THERAPISTS AND EVALUATORS We need to take a large step back in time for a moment, to the early
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Ontario’s Assault on Health Care
Earlier this month, the Ontario government took a shot at real medicine when it became the first province in Canada to regulate homeopathy. What the government should have done, if it had any real concern about our collective health or our health care system, is ban it. Instead, although it at
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Woo Wednesday on DWR – The “Magic” of Ear Candling
Hey, lets stuff burning stuff into our orifices, think magical thoughts, and *poof* feel better. Let’s go along with Concordance as he takes a bit more time to explain exactly inane ear candling is and why, at the same time rational people still do it. Filed under: Quackery Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Logic: How to PWN an argument, without getting the RPOJ
If you want to take down somebody else’s argument, a certain familiarity with the nature of intellectual or philosophical (as opposed to playground) argument is required, so that you can construct your own counter-argument. In an intellectual argument, the person putting forth an argument sets out a number of premises
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Traditional Woo – Endangering Children in Canada
Just like using Vitamin C to treat cancer… “It’s a case that has Canadians and the legal community buzzing. Earlier this month Ontario Judge Gethin Edward ruled in favour of a First Nations girl and her family, who stopped chemotherapy to treat her acute lymphoblastic leukemia, choosing traditional medicine instead. The judge rejected
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Reflexology: another daft New Age idea
As medicine, reflexology is bunk. Just like iridology and phrenology. Of course, you knew that. But not everyone does. Reflexology popped up recently in a shared post on Facebook (a popular venue for moving codswallop and cat photos from one user to another at the speed of light…). Coincidentally it appeared
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All You Need to Know About Dr.OZ
One video, sixteen minutes equals deep insight into how American society runs. (Hint: Most likely not for your benefit.) I grow tired of hearing arch-conservatives rail on about the evils of regulation and how it stifles industry. People die because of deregulation and lax standards – but somehow the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Edmonton Alternative Medicine – Quackery Descends in my Hometown
Why oh why do people still want to normalize the use of magic and illusion into the practice of medicine? We’ve spent decades codifying and rooting out the bullshit practices and have steeled ourselves against ‘good common sense’ notions and looked where the evidence points us. There is no
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Testing Homeopathy – As if you didn’t know already, but just in case.
For the people who think this stuff works… With many thanks to Cool Hard Logic for such a engaging presentation. Filed under: Quackery Tagged: Cool Hard Logic, homeopathy, Science Fail
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quackery Smack Down on the Australian Broadcasting Network
Chiropractors it is your term to take the sauce and see that the woo you peddle is twaddle and dangerous to people. Filed under: Quackery, Science Tagged: ABC, Chiropractic Woo, Quackery
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