Fads and Quackery in Healing

Mesmerism, Galvanism and Quackery

The key to reducing quackery lies in healing patients and treating their experience.

I can agree with several of the points made in this review; however, it does not deal with the reality of having cancer. I doubt very much that the authors have had either cancer or any other life-threatening illness, and so do not understand what “the natives” are experiencing. If doctors were trained in communication skills, then quackery would diminish greatly. We need to reparent our patien...

Quackery in India

men are found, who style themselves " Medical Practitioners." Under this word lies concealed the fact that the men in question have got no degrees in medicine from recognised institutions. They carry on the profession without having gone through any professional training either at a Medical College or School in India. They are nothing short of quacks, and it is a pity that the Government do not...

Title: Quantum Quackery

Peer review is no panacea; every generation must reevaluate empirical evidence in the context of its own time. For a century, quantum mechanics has defied common sense. However, common sense dictates that the stability of molecular bonds contradicts probabilistic, leaping electrons. In fact, Bohr’s quantum leap scenario violates the second law of thermodynamics and contradicts phase transition ...

Is post-mortem toxicology quackery?

Patients visit their doctors with the reasonable expectation that the recommended treatment is appropriate and, even if they do not know the exact terminology, that the doctor’s choice of treatment is ‘‘evidenced-based.’’ Those charged with serious crimes, such as murder, might share similar expectations about the evidence presented against them, but they would frequently be mistaken, particula...