Category Archives: Law, Regulation, and Politics

From SBM — Updated on CAM Protection in Health Care Reform

Posted on October 18, 2009 by skeptvet

Science-Based Medicine has posted a look at some of the language that has survived into current Senate and House versions of health care reform legislation. The woo protection elements are alive and well. Here are some examples:  “insurance coverage shall … Continue reading →

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Doctor Indicted for Selling Bogus “Cure” to Cancer Patients

Posted on October 11, 2009 by skeptvet

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 →

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From CFI – Paying for Non-Evidence Based Health Care

Posted on September 28, 2009 by skeptvet

The Office of Public Policy of the Center for Inquiry, a think tank an lobby devoted to science and reason in public policy, has issued a report warning of attempts by notorious CAM booster Tom Harkin and others to insert … Continue reading →

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WHO- Homeopathy Not Appropriate for Serious Disease

Posted on August 23, 2009 by skeptvet

The World Health Organization is, like most UN entities, is a highly political creature. It tries to promote health in a bewildering variety of political, economic, and physical environments, and I give it full credit for what it manages to … Continue reading →

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GAO Acknowledges FDA Oversight of Dietary Supplements Inadequate

Posted on July 20, 2009 by skeptvet

It is widely understood that the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act has created a wide open and lucrative market for herbal remedies and dietary supplements that don’t have to pass even minimal standards of evidence that they are … Continue reading →

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Licensing Woo in WA

Posted on July 5, 2009 by skeptvet

A fellow veterinarian recently drew my attention to a glaring example of the disconnect between the logic of science and the logic of politics, and how Big CAM is, sadly, better at playing politics than scientists seem to be. A … Continue reading →

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Government Fails to Protect People from Harmful CAM

Posted on June 23, 2009 by skeptvet

A healthy women, told by her chiropractor she needed her subluxations treated by forceful manipulation of her neck to “improve her health and wellness” ended up a quadraplegic. She and others hurt by chiropractors in Canada have filed a class-action … Continue reading →

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