pseudoscience
Vitamin supplements, flu, magnets, and more …
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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...]
Vaccine myths, diet myths, preventing Listeria, and more …
FSM Friends news & articles
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...]
Legislative failures, osteopathy, nutritional advice and more…
FSM news & articles
Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill 2017 passed by Senate: “…the Government sees no problems with medicines that claims to ‘soften hardness’, ‘tonifies kidney essence’, ‘open body orifices’, ‘replenish the gate of vitality’ and ‘moistens dryness in the triple burner’. ”
Scientific literacy, missing evidence, diets, a new approach to cancer, and more…
FSM Friends news & articles
Scientific literacy low priority for CAM practitioners: “A draft industry skills forecast for the complementary health industry puts scientific literacy near the bottom of a list of ‘key generic skills – ranked in order of importance. Sciences, mathematics and scientific … [Read more...]
An invitation to fraud, cancer treatments, the benefits of exercise, and more
FSM news & articles
An open invitation to health fraud: Friends of Science in Medicine and other stakeholders are concerned that the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2017 Measures No. 1) Bill 2017 would remove pre-approval of advertisements for therapeutic goods in favour of self-regulation. The … [Read more...]
Health policy, anti-science, regulatory failure, and more..
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Media Release: Proposed bill fails to protect consumers from unproven medicines: Government legislation and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) are supposed to protect Australians when they purchase medicines. Prominent health authorities are warning that the Federal Government is trying to … [Read more...]
Anti-vax networks, detecting nutritional nonsense, sunscreens, and more…
FSM Friends news & articles
What naturopaths say to each other when they think no one’s listening: “I do so love how ‘low potency’ in homeopathy-speak means stronger concentrations of homeopathic remedies, you know, not the super ultra-dilutions like 30C… a 30C homeopathic dilution is … [Read more...]