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Special Challenges of Science-Based Veterinary Medicine
The following is a post I contributed to the Science-Based Medicine blog. On this site there have been several thoughtful posts (e.g. by Dr. Atwood and by Dr. Novella), and subsequently much heated commentary, on the distinction between Evidence-Based Medicine … Continue reading
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Vet Stem’s Stem Cell Therapy and Chemaphor’s Oximunol Join Forces
I recently ran across a press release which identified a business relationship I found interesting. Apparently, the Canadian company Chemaphor, maker of the nutritional supplement Oximunol which I have discussed in the past, has entered into a licensing arrangement with … Continue reading
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
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Dr. Walt’s Warning Signs of Quackery
I ran across a series of posts from a physician which I think do a thorough job of identifying warning signs of unscientific, irrational or outright quack medical treatments. They’re not organized in a particularly systematic way, but they cover … Continue reading
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Holistic Vet Asks, “IF CAM doesn’t work, why is it allowed?”
A certain “holistic” veterinarian about whom I’ve written before (here, here, here, and—well, you get the idea) has asked a couple of good questions on his own blog, though not surprisingly I don’t find his answers at all convincing. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in General, Law, Regulation, and Politics
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Uncertainty-What It Means and What It Doesn’t
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before … Continue reading
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The Placebo Effect In Song
Happy Birthday, SketpVet! 🙂 Today marks the first anniversary of this blog. Not a momentous event for the world at large, but yet another reminder of the fleeting nature of time for me. Apparently, in the last year I have … Continue reading
Posted in General, Humor
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Don’t Be Such a Scientist or The Negating Culture of Science and its Costs
I recently finished reading Randy Olson’s book Don’t Be Such a Scientist, and I definitely recommend it. It is an entertaining read and has a number of useful insights into the perennial problem of communicating complex, nuanced, and incomplete scientific … Continue reading
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Evaluating Medical Advice and Credentials on the Internet
Dr. Susan Wynn, a veterinarian and veterinary nutritionist who promotes “holistic” veterinary medicine, has put up a couple of blog posts recently which I rather liked, so I thought I’d comment briefly on them. I more commonly find myself disagreeing … Continue reading
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Therapies to Soothe all Four Legs–From the NY Times
There was a scary article yesterday in the New York Times talking about the popularity of a variety of CAM therapies for racehorses. It is a laundry list of nonsense complete with outrageous prices and weak rationalizations. I also thought … Continue reading
Posted in General, Miscellaneous CAVM
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