Friends of Science in Medicine
CSIRO profiting from weight loss pill with no scientific backing: The pills, marketed as ‘Metabolic C12’ contain lauric acid, which has some early evidence behind it as an appetite suppressant. However, it has never been tested for weight loss. The Impromy… [Read more...]
How are vitamins and supplements regulated? SBS Insight discusses the supplements industry. Our president, Dr Ken Harvey, is in full swing challenging the lack of evidence and poor consumer protection in the industry.
Italo-Australian scientist Marcello Costa appointed “Cavaliere”: … [Read more...]
Review finds Wilyman Anti-vax PhD “Incomplete”, “Biased” and “Flawed”: In 2015 the University of Wollongong awarded a now notorious PhD for the anti-vaccine thesis “A critical analysis of the Australian government’s rationale for its vaccination policy”, which claimed to review biased science, and the … [Read more...]
Blackmores vitamin chief says $10m for naturopathic centre at university will not influence research: “Blackmores is a company that’s made a fortune capitalising on the poor health of Australians and convincing them they need a whole lot of supplements and … [Read more...]
The following article by Professor John Dwyer relates to the rejection of accreditation for the proposed ‘vitalistic’ Australian Chiropractic College.
Click on the link for the College’s response to the rejection: https://www.facebook.com/AustralianChiropracticCollege/
Here is FSM’s position, as articulated by Professor Dwyer:… [Read more...]
Zsolt Boldogkői, head of the Department of Medical Biology at the University of Szeged, lamented TCM’s growing influence in the country in an open letter to the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. “Acupuncture is based on pseudoscience and a technique unsuitable for medical … [Read more...]
New guidelines to prevent falls, fractures in older adults: Overall, unintentional falls result in about 33,000 deaths of older adults in the U.S. each year. In an effort to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities in the elderly, the U.S. Preventive Services … [Read more...]
Yet more evidence that the antivaccine trope of “too many too soon” is nonsense: “When you compare the number of antigens in the vaccine schedule (a few hundred at most) to the many thousands of antigens they encounter just by … [Read more...]