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Falconer Strikes Back: A Veterinary Homeopath Refutes the Skeptics and Reveals the Emperor’s Nakedness
It can be very instructive when proponents of alternative medicine respond to comments or criticism from skeptics. Sometimes, they respond with reasoned, even evidence-based defense of a specific practice. This is a good sign and can lead to productive discussion. … Continue reading
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Holistic Veterinary Medicine: A Variety of Faith Healing
Early on in my effort to understand and evaluate alternative veterinary therapies, I had the naïve notion that learning about their mechanisms of action and the research evidence behind them would enable me to tell which were safe and effective … Continue reading
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Evidence-Based Medicine: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
As I have discussed before, evidence-based medicine is the formal, explicit application of the philosophy and methods of science to generating understanding and making decisions in veterinary medicine. Science shows us how the world works, and in medicine it shows … Continue reading
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Dog Food Logic–A Great New Guide to Dog Foods for Dog Owners
I was recently asked to review a new book for dog owners called Dog Food Logic: Making Smart Decisions for Your Dog in an Age of Too Many Choices by Linda Case. I was very impressed, and I encourage anyone interested … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Nutrition
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Nutrition Resources for Pet Owners
There is, as we all know, a tremendous amount of misinformation on the internet concenring virtually any subject. Yet the internet is an unqeustionably powerful information resources, likely indispensible for anyone seeking to be an informed consumer. For pet owners, … Continue reading
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WVC 2014: Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine
I presented four hours of lecture at the Western States Veterinary Conference in Las Vegas February, 2014. Here is the bibliography for those talks, which contains a lot of good resources on critical thinking, evidence-based veterinary medicine, and alternative veterinary … Continue reading
VancouverFeline and Evidence-Based Medicine
Stumbled across this blog post from VancouverFeline recently. Warms my skeptical heart!! In medicine, we have many habits and quirks handed down through the generations. Often, we think nothing of these, and even believe that these well-accepted practices are grounded … Continue reading
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Benefits & Risks of Neutering, an Evidence Update–Cancer and Behavioral Problems in Vizslas
As part of my ongoing coverage of the risks and benefits associated with neutering, I wanted to review a recent article on the subject, this one looking specifically at cancer risk and behavioral problems in Vizslas. Zink, MC. Farhoodly, P. … Continue reading
Posted in Science-Based Veterinary Medicine
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Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy Doesn’t Like Criticism–Except Their Own
During the discussion about the AVMA resolution identifying homeopathy as ineffective, defenders of homeopathy were adament that it would be unfair of the AVMA to single out their methods for criticism. I wonder if the House of Delegates was aware … Continue reading
Posted in Homeopathy
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On CAVM Research and Plausibility
I have been participating in a discussion on the Veterinary Information Network (VIN) about the AVMA’s failure to take a scientific and principled position on homeopathy, and it prompted me to outline a few thoughts on the subject of whether … Continue reading
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