Monthly Archives: March 2025

The Expanding Universe of Canine Aging Science- From VPN

Posted on March 30, 2025 by skeptvet

Aging is the single most important risk factor for disability, disease, and, ultimately, death in adult dogs.1 It has long been viewed as inevitable and immutable, but decades of scientific research have demonstrated aging is more appropriately understood as a modifiable … Continue reading →

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Choosing Wisely- 2025 Edition

Posted on March 30, 2025 by skeptvet

A regular feature in my continuing education conference talks for vets is a review of therapies that are popular and they we might want to reconsider based on scientific evidence. Some of these are perennial, such as metronidazole for acute … Continue reading →

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Bizarre Plan to “Destroy” Veterinary Medicine

Posted on March 18, 2025 by skeptvet

I have written a few times in the past about one of the most powerful, and richest, promoters of pseudoscience in the world, Joseph Mercola. More often, I have written about his veterinarian accomplice, Dr. Karen Becker. For many years, Dr. Becker promoted … Continue reading →

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