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• Do Physicians Really Believe in Placebos? (Peter Lipson, October 27 2008)
• Incorporating Placebos into Mainstream Medicine (Harriet Hall, July 28 2009)
• Is There a Placebo Effect for Animals? (David Ramey, October 25, 2008)
• The Placebo Effect (Steven Novella, January 16 2008)
• Placebo Effects Revisited (Steven Novella, March 24 2010)
• Placebo Is Not What You Think It Is (Peter Lipson, September 4 2009)
• The Placebo Myth (Mark Crislip, July 3 2008)
• Placebos In The News Again (David Gorski, October 27, 2998)
• Placebo Therapies: Are They Ethical (Val Jones, March 18 2009)
• The Rise of Placebo Medicine (Steven Novella, August 12 2009)
• Studying Placebo Effects (Steven Novella, April 9 2008)

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• Charlatan: Quackery Then and Now
• Snake Oil Science
• Women in Medicine
• On Being Certain
• Christiane Northrup, MD: Science Tainted with Strange Beliefs
• The New England Journal of Medicine Disappoints
• Trick or Treatment
• Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster?
• What’s for Dinner?

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• Amanda Peet is My Hero (1)
• Toxic myths about vaccines
• When “investigative reporting” becomes anti-vaccine propaganda
• Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and “Green Our Vaccines”: Anti-vaccine, not “pro-safe vaccine”
• HPV vaccination misinformation and bias in Medscape
• The Media and Vaccines
• Thanks, Jenny McCarthy! Thanks for the measles!
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., vaccines, the EPA, and the interface with science-based medicine and public policy

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• Cell phones and cancer again, or: Oh, no! My cell phone’s going to give me cancer!
• Antibiotics for Sinusitis
• Barriers to practicing science-based surgery
• The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics
• Annals of Questionable Evidence: a new study reveals substantial publication bias in trials of anti-depressants
• Do Antidepressants Work? The Effect of Publication Bias
• Antioxidant Hype and Reality
• Thoughts on Neuroplasticity
• Ultrasound Screening: Misleading the Public
• Proposed Changes to FDA Regulation Present a Dilemma
• Annals of Questionable Evidence: a new study reveals substantial publication bias in trials of anti-depressants
• Ultrasound Screening: Misleading the Public
• When the popularity of new surgical procedures outpaces science
• The Business of Being Born
• Hormone Replacement Therapy
• Cell Phones and Brain Tumors
• The “Art” of Clinical Decision-Making
• The Real ID
• Diagnostic Dilemmas
• Not Treating – A Neglected Option
• Early detection of cancer, part 2: Breast cancer and MRI
• Death By Medicine
• The media versus the frontiers of medicine and surgery
• Are Cardiologists Ordering Too Many CT Angiograms?
• Should I Take a Multivitamin?
• Can Psychosis be Prevented?
• Polypharmacy – Is It Evidence-Based?
• HIV Treatment Extends Life Expectancy
• Calories In – Calories Out
• Amanda Peet is My Hero (1)
• Threats to science-based medicine: When clinical trials for new drugs are designed by the marketing division
• Attitudes and Public Health
• The Importance and Limitations of Peer-Review

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• The Media and “CAM”
• Akavar 20/50 and Truth in Advertising
• Science by press release: A helmet to fight Alzheimer’s disease?
• The Iraqi Civilian War Dead Scandal
• Alternative Medicine, and the Internet
• The Business of Being Born
• When “investigative reporting” becomes anti-vaccine propaganda
• Charlie Woo TV
• HPV vaccination misinformation and bias in Medscape
• The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Ideology trumps science-based medicine
• Science and Health News Reporting – The Case of the Regenerating Finger
• The Media and Vaccines
• Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and “Green Our Vaccines”: Anti-vaccine, not “pro-safe vaccine”
• The media versus the frontiers of medicine and surgery
• Why would medical schools associate with quackery? Or, How we did it.
• Resistance is futile
• Parody beats political analysis
• Medscape quietly pulls a bad news article
• Pro-CAM Wikipedia – Skeptics Need Not Apply
• Misleading Ads for Back Pain Treatment
• National Health Interview Survey 2007 – CAM Use by Adults
• Misleading Ads in Scientific American
• Trouble in the Library

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• The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM): Your tax dollars hard at work
• Resistance is futile? Hell, no! (A call to arms)
• “Chelation Therapy”: Another Unethical “CAM” Trial Sponsored by Taxpayers
• The TACT is at least as Bad as We Predicted
• The FDA Cracks Down on Fake Cancer Cures
• “CAL”: a Medico-Legal Parable
• Canada Bill C-51 – Regulating Natural Health Products
• We Have to Draw the Line Somewhere
• The North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. Rashid Buttar, and protecting the public from practitioners of non-science-based medicine
• Politics and Science at the HHS
• Another State Promotes the Pseudoscientific Cult that is “Naturopathic Medicine.” Part 1
• Another State Promotes the Pseudoscientific Cult that is “Naturopathic Medicine.” Part 2
• Another State Promotes the Pseudoscientific Cult that is “Naturopathic Medicine.” Part 3
• Another State Promotes the Pseudoscientific Cult that is “Naturopathic Medicine.” Part 4
• Politics of N of 1 pseudoscience
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., vaccines, the EPA, and the interface with science-based medicine and public policy

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Colonics

• Colon “cleanses”: A load of you know what…
• Would you like a liver flush with that colon cleanse?

Energy Therapies

• Touched by a Touched Healing Toucher
• Impossibilities

Magnet Therapy

• Can Magnets Heal?

Morgellon’s disease

• Itching and the Imaginary Passenger Brake

Touch Therapies

• Touch – a Trojan Horse
• Touched by a Touched Healing Toucher

Unclassified

• Animal rights terrorists endanger science-based medicine
• The Iraqi Civilian War Dead Scandal
• Iraq civilian deaths II: Summing up
• My Woo: A Confession
• Snipers – A Short Reflection
• 4 Minute Exercise Machine
• Bisphenol A in Plastics – Should We Worry?

Weight Loss

• Akavar 20/50 and Truth in Advertising
• Calories In – Calories Out

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• Placebo Effect
  • The Placebo Effect
  • Studying Placebo Effects
  • The Placebo Myth
  • On the dangers of using valid placebo controls in clinical trials of acupuncture
  • Sterile Water Injections for Pain Relief
• Prior Probability: The Dirty Little Secret of “Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine
• Prior Probability: the Dirty Little Secret of “Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine”—Continued
• Prior Probability: the Dirty Little Secret of “Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine”—Continued Again
• The Role of Anecdotes in Science-Based Medicine
• Misleading Language: the Common Currency of “CAM” Characterizations. Part I
• Misleading Language: the Common Currency of “CAM” Characterizations Part II

• The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part I)
• The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part II)
• The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part III)
• The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part IV)
• The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part V)
• The Ethics of “CAM” Trials: Gonzo (Part VI)
• Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine Part 1
• Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 2: the Tortured Logic of David Katz
• Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 3
• Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 4: is “CAM” the only Alternative?
• Science, Reason, Ethics, and Modern Medicine, Part 5: Penultimate Words

• RCT Plausibility Scale
• The Plant vs Pharmaceutical False Dichotomy
• On the nature of “alternative” medicine cancer cure testimonials
• Barriers to practicing science-based surgery
• Dr. Judah Folkman (1933-2008): The epitome of what a science-based physician should be
• The Placebo Effect
• The Role of Anecdotes in Science-Based Medicine
• The Bait and Switch of Unscientific Medicine
• Alternative Flight
• Bad scientific arguments in the service of animal rights activism
• The Weekly Waluation of the Weasel Words of Woo #2
• One Hand Clapping
• Reading Medical Literature with a Critical Eye
• Near Death Experiences and the Medical Literature
• Changing the Rules of Evidence
• Death By Medicine
• Recognizing Dubious Health Devices
• The Importance and Limitations of Peer-Review
• On the ethics of clinical trials of homeopathy in Third World countries
• Resistance is futile? Hell, no! (A call to arms)
• Death by “alternative” medicine: Who’s to blame?
• Barriers to practicing science-based surgery
• Dr. Judah Folkman (1933-2008): The epitome of what a science-based physician should be
• The Ethics of Deception in Medicine
• Deception and Ethics in Sectarian Medicine
• Annals of Questionable Evidence: a new study reveals substantial publication bias in trials of anti-depressants
• The Role of Anecdotes in Science-Based Medicine
• Antiscience-Based Medicine in South Africa
• A Foolish Consistency
• Persistence of Memory
• The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Ideology trumps science-based medicine
• Conflict of Interest in Medical Research
• Changing the Rules of Evidence
• The Real ID
• Diagnostic Dilemmas
• The TACT is at least as Bad as We Predicted
• Connections
• A Guide for Confronting Patients
• On the dangers of using valid placebo controls in clinical trials of acupuncture
• “Patient-Centered Care” and the Society for Integrative Oncology
• Postmodernist attacks on science-based medicine

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• Politics and Science at the HHS

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• “Chelation Therapy”: Another Unethical “CAM” Trial Sponsored by Taxpayers
• The TACT is at least as Bad as We Predicted
• Should We Study Chelation for Autism?

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