Category: Medical Pseudoscience around the World
Homeopathy Research Hits New Low
“Homeopathy in Cancer Patients: Almost Too Good to Be True.” That was the headline of an article in the October 23, 2022, issue of the Austrian weekly news magazine Profil reporting on an investigation by the Austrian Agency for Scientific Integrity (OeAWI) (Schönberger 2022). The subject of the investigation was a study on the use …
This article is available for free to all.Rise of Ayurveda: A Dangerous Trend to Decolonize the Scientific Method
Progress made in India in the past decade in digitization, banking reforms, and economic structuring has been phenomenal. However, there seems to be an inversely proportional relationship between economic/technological advancement and health/education in the present-day political India. It seems that the concept of going back to one’s roots has been exclusively reserved for health and …
This article is available for free to all.The Hypocrisy of Medical Disinformation: A Report from Hungary
Looking at the business behind pseudoscientific disinformation, we see that disseminators of online medical disinformation are hypocritical anti-capitalists. Despite regularly attacking the “pharmaceutical mafia” and Big Pharma, they obtain tremendous profits both directly (through website advertisements and clicks) and indirectly (through promotion of pseudoscientific medical products). Thus, the editors of medical disinformation websites are neither …
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