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Integrative Veterinary Cancer Care: Are Claims without Evidence Dishonest?
One of the most frustrating problems with the promotion of alternative medicine and approaches that have not been validated through appropriate scientific testing is that proponents often feel free to make sweeping claims about safety and efficacy despite the absence … Continue reading
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Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Cancer: Recent Studies find Danger and no Benefits
There are different ways to employ alternative medical therapies. Sometimes they are used in place of conventional, scientific medicine. More commonly, they are used along with conventional therapy and simply given the credit for any improvement. However, in either case … Continue reading
Vitamin Supplements- Do they prevent cancer?
Few purported medical interventions have such wide appeal or such an entrenched reputation for being benign and beneficial as vitamin supplements. Vitamins are chemicals (yes, they are, though you can call them “compounds” or even “essential nutrients” if it sounds … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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Micronutrients and Cancer
A recent editorial in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) addresses the issue of whether micronutrients, such as vitamins, have a clear role in cancer prevention. It is fairly common in broad epidemiological survey studies to look for … Continue reading
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Doctor Indicted for Selling Bogus “Cure” to Cancer Patients
I’ve discussed previously why it is both understandable that desperately ill people turn to unproven or bogus therapies and why it is immoral to take advantage of this desperation and sell them such therapies. It is comforting, then, to find … Continue reading
Fickle Justice: Some Quacks get Punished, Most Get Away with It
One of the goals of this blog has always been to warn pet owners about dangers to their animals: dangerously unreliable ideas and ways of thinking about science and medicine, dangerous therapies (or at least those not yet proven to … Continue reading
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Evidence Update: What’s New with Cannabis for Pets?
It’s been ten years since my first post on the use of cannabis in dogs and cats. For a while, I regularly covered new research studies, but the number of those has become great enough that keeping up with individual papers is … Continue reading
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Can We Make Dogs Live Forever?
No. Well, that could easily be the shortest SkeptVet blog post ever, but I guess I can’t really leave it there. For one thing, the answer should really be, “Almost certainly no,” since my level of confidence is high but … Continue reading
Posted in Aging Science
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Dr. Karen Becker Pleads for Freedom from Criticism
One of the least reliable sources of veterinary information the internet, Dr. Karen Becker, is at it again. In a recent FB post, she implies that my criticism of her anti-science claims, her promotion of unscientific, unproven, and ineffective therapies, … Continue reading
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Liquid Biopsy- An Evidence Update
I have written about the emerging liquid biopsy tests a couple of times before (here and here). These are blood tests that are intended to find signs of cancer circulating in the blood. This can be used for screening, testing individuals with … Continue reading
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