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About a decade ago, my late colleague Dr. Martin Feldman and I were invited to be keynote speakers at a conference on anti-aging and alternative medicine in Chicago. The hall was packed with several thousand clinicians, physicians, medical professors, scientific researchers and doctors of non-conventional medical disciplines who were interested in the latest anti-aging research. […]

Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against Chiropractic Medical Despotism, the AMA’s and Wikipedia’s Offensive Against Chiropractic Richard Gale & Gary NullProgressive Radio Network, May 30, 2018 “Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine. Proponents claim that […]

From the mind of Jimmy Wales, to the alternative health community: “What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of “true scientific discourse”. It isn’t.”   One of the most exciting and successful healing modalities is energy medicine. It exists in different forms known by different names (emotional […]

Last year a senior administrator and editor on Wikipedia questioned the encyclopedia’s usefulness and proposed that Wikipedia was “on its death bed and that euthanasia is the best option in this case.”  The editor, Michael Hardy, noted, that at one time Wikipedia “was impressive even while lots of confused apes wandered about chaotically. Then it […]

Alongside Traditional Chinese Medicine, Indian Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest medical systems still widely accepted and practiced today. It has managed to thrive and flourish for at least three millennia and has built up an enormous body of diagnostic methods and treatments for a wide variety of mild to life-threatening illnesses and diseases. […]

The history of scientific and medical research is pervaded with examples of denigration and suppression by a dominant scientific elite. In the absence of dissent, innovation and vision that promises progress and reform, a population succumbs to conformity and eventually stagnation. We only need to look at Iran under the control of ayatollahs, the fundamentalist […]

Google is undoubtedly the single most powerful IT corporation without second in the world. The firm possesses the world’s most popular search engine, which has been given Congressional protection to abide by internet neutrality and to avoid ideological or political favoritism. Yet in recent years Google has also become a highly effective political machine; for […]

Wikipedia’s entry for HIV prevention and treatment drug Zidovudine (ZDV), more commonly known as AZT (azidothymidine) and Retrovir, is largely a sanitized history about the discovery of by far the most important AIDS drug.  The FDA’s approval of AZT established a new drug class of nucleoside analogs, sometimes referred to as “nukes.” It is also […]

A trend that is increasingly becoming accepted in mainstream, conventional medicine has been the acceptance of complementary and alternative medical theories and practices. Since 1997, Quackwatch has been the nation’s leading voice opposing the growing popularity in alternative medicine and funding for research into its efficacy. Portending to be a consumer protection resource, the organization […]

Skeptics place an enormous amount of importance in the scientific research that appears in peer-reviewed publications. At the same time it is correctly critical of the quality of large amounts of clinical research that gets published. The same is true for Quackwatch, the Skeptics’ first-stop resource for information to debunk non-conventional and alternative medical systems, […]