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Dr. Andrew Jones: Selling “Secrets” and Lies finally has a price
I once referred briefly to Dr. Andrew Jones in a previous post as an example of one of the warning signs of quackery, the claim of secret knowledge that mainstream science and medicine doesn’t want you to have. Of course, … Continue reading
Posted in General, Law, Regulation, and Politics
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Double Helix Water: More Magic Water Quackery
The beauty of pseudoscience as a marketing tool is that it is, for those not trained in the particular branch of real science being mimicked, almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Of course, many of the warning signs of quackery … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous CAVM
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Supraglan: Empty Promises, Not Medicine
I came across an especially egregious example of veterinary quackery recently which I wanted to warn people about. Petwellbeing.com, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Natural Wellbeing Distribution sells a product call Supraglan, which it advertises as a treatment for … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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Edzard Ernst on How to Spot Medical Nonsense
Edzard Ernst is well known as an “insider” in the world of alternative medicine who has come to see the need for rational, scientific analysis and evidence to justify inflicting any treatment of whatever provenance on patients. His book, with … Continue reading
Posted in General
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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
Posted in Law, Regulation, and Politics
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The Latest in Veterinary Aging Supplements- Leap Years by Animal Biosciences
While the focus of my professional attention, and my writing, has largely shifted away from complementary and alternative veterinary medicine (CAVM) per se and towards the field of aging, I obviously cannot escape the pseudoscience and sloppy or motivated reasoning that characterizes … Continue reading
Posted in Aging Science, Herbs and Supplements
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Raw Diets and Allergies-SkeptVet and DogRisk Exchange Letters in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
In March of this year, I wrote a post discussing the limitations and misleading conclusions of a research study in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (JVIM) which claimed that feeding puppies a raw diet could reduce the risk of allergies later … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition
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Managing Sepsis: A Rational Approach & the Vitamin C Controversy
IntroductionSepsis is currently defined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction secondary to a dysregulated physiologic response to infection. There are widely used, evidence-based guidelines for diagnosis and management of sepsis in human medicine,1but there is no single guideline or consensus statement … Continue reading
Posted in Science-Based Veterinary Medicine
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A Detailed, Evidence-based response to Petco’s Ban on “Artificial” Food Ingredients
Here is an article from Veterinary Practice News responding to the ridiculous marketing ploy by Petco declaring a ban on “artificial” food ingredients. Since the late 1980s, individuals and organizations have been trying to warn the public about a deadly … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition
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Evidence Update: Grain-free and other “BEG” Diets Associated with Heart Disease in Dogs
I have been following with great interest the emerging evidence about grain-free and exotic protein diets as a possible risk factor for heart disease in dogs. I first raised the subject in response to several cases of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) I … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition
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