Category Archives: General

I really shouldn’t be giving this guy so much attention, but after our little tiff I’ve taken to checking in on his blog, and the vicious and self-serving marketing strategy is offensive enough to stimulate a response. Dr. Shaw Messonnier … Continue reading →

I notice that Dr. Messonier has deleted  my response to his blog post defaming me. I guess polite, reasoned criticism is intolerable to him. He has also written another post full of strawmen and cliches. He begins by trying to make … Continue reading →

Dr. Shawn Messonier, a highly visible alternative medicine veterinarian with a blog, radio program, and a couple of books, recently wrote an opinion piece for the online edition of USA Today claiming that changing vaccine recommendations were validation of his … Continue reading →

For all that CAM proponents like to claim their methods are philosophically different from (and of course superior to) mainstream medicine, they also can never resist claiming scientific legitimacy or popularity among mainstream health care professionals. “Integrative medicine” is the … Continue reading →

There was a thoughtful and cogent essay on the Kevinmd Blog today about a key element in doctor/patient (or in the veterinary case doctor/client) relationships: what happens to the relationship when you say “No” to people. This is certainly a … Continue reading →

Just to let all readers know, on January 28th, I will be hosting the 129th Skeptics’ Circle, a biweekly blog carnival collecting and presenting articles applying the skeptical point of view to a wide variety of issues. I’ve had a few … Continue reading →

The question of whether the electromagnetic radiation from cell phones is a risk factor for human disease, especially brain cancer, has been debated and studied at length. There are committed partisans on both sides, but the research is inconsistent and … Continue reading →

I am often struck by what I consider one of the great mysteries of CAM: how theories and approaches that are mutually inconsistent and incompatible are unified under the CAM umbrella without any apparent notice being taken of their mutually … Continue reading →

As we all know, the Internet is a mixed blessing. It makes enormous amounts of information easily and cheaply available to billions of people. Unfortunately, not all information is created equal, and sometimes bad information is worse than none. Contrary … Continue reading →