Atrocious: Helene M. Langevin, M.D. Helene Langevin is using her position as leader of NIH’s witchcraft section NIH NCCIH to create a new quackery group run by leaders of the dangerous pseudoscience groups Institute for Functional Medicine and Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine

Helene M. Langevin, M.D. NIH NCCIH The deceptively-named "NCCIH Coalition for Whole Person Health" is government-created yet led by advocates for "integrative medicine", a quack marketing term that is associated with anti-vax beliefs. Functional medicine is a similar marketing term. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Helene M. Langevin, M.D. NIH NCCIH Helene Langevin is the director of the NIH's witchcraft section. She is a proponent of acupuncture pseudoscience and has committed millions of taxpayer dollars to create a useless database of acupoints. Acupoints are a product of the human imagination. sciencebasedmedicine.org/nccih-has-a-ne…

Helene M. Langevin, M.D. NIH NCCIH Info about the ""NCCIH Coalition for Whole Person Health" nccih.nih.gov/about/offices/… For the useless acupoints database, NCCIH announced that it intends to commit an estimated total cost up to $1,200,000 per year for five years: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

Delayed and compromised #Obstetrics care and impacts on #MedicalEducation caused by #Dobbs are detailed in report by Rep. Rep. Frank Pallone Stephen Barrett, M.D William M. London Dr. Ali Khan David Gorski, MD, PhD Steven Novella democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/media/press-re…

It's about damn time! American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Revokes Certification for Pierre Kory, MD MPA & Paul Marik for #COVID19 Misinformation, including promoting #Ivermectin William M. London Steven Novella David Gorski, MD, PhD Edzard Ernst Timothy Caulfield Paul Offit medscape.com/viewarticle/ab…

Because of course it didn't. Can the NIH stop spending millions exploring 'treatments' that have little likelihood or even rational for working?! Study of #chelation shows no clinical effect in Patient's with CAD & DM William M. London Stephen Barrett, M.D David Gorski, MD, PhD Steven Novella Edzard Ernst

Consumer Health Digest *Chelation therapy fails to benefit patients w/diabetes & prior heart attack *FTC final rule bans fake reviews/testimonials *Promoters of ivermectin to treat COVID lose board certification *Raw milk *Oil-pulling quackwatch.org/ncahf/digest24…

There's a common misperception that since lots of intellectuals hold beliefs like “sex is a spectrum”, therefore these beliefs must have some validity. But intellectuals are not immune to delusion; they are in fact particularly vulnerable to it. I explain here (sound on):

Just-published (and to be periodically updated) but unfortunately only available to institutional subscribers such as university libraries: Quackery as a Public Health Problem - Public Health - Oxford Bibliographies oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docume…

Consumer Health Digest, Issue #24-34 *Dubious mental health practices spotlighted *Psychologists question EMDR endorsements *Experts rebut alarmist claims about glyphosate *Segment of the life-coaching industry said to operate like a pyramid scheme quackwatch.org/ncahf/digest24…

Major covid-misinformation-promoting conference at Stanford University featuring outspoken cranks. latimes.com/business/story…

Both vaccine hesitancy & belief in harmful bunk increasing. A big reason? Politics. And it's killing people. My NEW article: Politics & vaccine misinformation: A horrifyingly bad mix healthydebate.ca/2024/09/topic/… "As anti-vaccine movements become more mainstream in conservative

Consumer Health Digest, Issue #24-35 *Stem cell marketer pleads guilty to felony distribution of unapproved drug *Financial problems of “alternative medicine” graduates spotlighted *Use of potentially liver-toxic herbal products found to be common quackwatch.org/ncahf/digest24…

Not unusual #naturopathy. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Calling out promotion of #quackery If only other cancer patients could wish it all away, just like heroic Elle Macpherson | Catherine Bennett theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Consumer Health Digest 24-36 *FTC staff: most MLM earnings disclosures mislead *Post hoc bias in recommendations to continue using dubious treatments *Magnesium product claims debunked *Spring Energy’s Awesome Saucecarbgel mislabeled for carb content quackwatch.org/ncahf/digest24…

Scientology and "Lyme literate" cult leader David Minkoff, MD has officially been sued over the death of Whitney Mills. We now know that he used predatory lab DNA ConneXions, which is owned by notorious quack dentist Blanche Grube. Grube's dental license was revoked in January.