(This piece is a guest post written by resident Saintgasoline.com alternative medicine and health expert Dr. Deepsack Woo-Hands.) In a recent study performed in my basement with a number of bewildered dogs and unwilling children, I uncovered a wide assortment of efficacious uses for acupuncture. While skeptics continually criticize acupuncture, calling it mean names like placebo …
Category Archive: Alternative Medicine
Posts skeptical of alternative medicine.
Jun 22
The Tao of Skepticism
Skeptics universally fear illogical claims and asinine assertions, but this fear is not reasonable. Such a fear is rooted in a Western way of thought that sees skepticism as totally opposed to credulousness. But it is high time skeptics embraced a more mystical, Eastern way of thinking: The Tao of Skepticism. Modern skeptical techniques simply …
Jun 05
Acupuncture: An Analysis of an Elaborate Placebo
Most complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities are complete bunk. Among the most mind-numbingly stupid modalities are therapeutic touch (a misleadingly named “therapy” in which a practitioner does not actually touch the patient at all and instead manipulates the “energy field” that hovers about six inches from the patient’s body), homeopathy (a “medicine” that consists …
Feb 02
Eli Stone: Prophet of Pseudoscience
Last Thursday, ABC premiered the first episode of a quirky, moralising legal drama that is arguably the bastard child of Ally Mcbeal, Boston Legal, and a bunch of new age hippies. Such a deformed monstrosity of a show could only be the mutated amalgam of three parents, eschewing the normal process of sexual intercourse to …
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