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#quackery — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quackery, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Beware of #quackery. "“They’ve invented a spurious pseudo-disease called ‘low testosterone’ from which vast numbers of men are said to suffer,” says Dr Richard Quinton..."#testosterone

    theguardian.com/society/2026/m

  2. Trump's new medical advice? Drink diet soda to cure cancer! He reasons that since Diet Coke "kills grass" that it can kill cancer cells in the human body.
    #quackery
    #droz
    #cancercure
    yahoo.com/news/articles/dr-oz-

  3. When Donald Trump is not unjustly enriching himself (can you say "corruption?") he and #RFKjr are worsening our health:

    "Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs. Federal policies under #RFKjr that are hostile to vaccines have 'sent a chill through the entire industry'.”:
    nytimes.com/2026/02/16/health/
    #healthcare #quackery #politics copy: @renewedresistance #Trump #WorstPresidentEver

  4. @HannahHowe
    Phosferine: alcohol, quinine and sulphuric acid. Mmm, yummy.
    #quackery

  5. This is interesting. The #Texas Penal Code makes no mention of conversion therapy on minors, yet § 35A.02(a)(7)(B) forbids providers from claiming fraudulent services. With no accredited provider seriously recommending conversion therapy, the statute thus presumably proscribes it as a medical treatment, rendering any new law redundant, not to mention the risk of said laws extending to counseling—an obvious constitutional no-no. (1/3)

    #FirstAmendment #LGBTQRights #overcriminalization #quackery

  6. #capitalism #quackery #pseudoscience
    Partner got a grounding sheet thing. It was recommended by her Brother and Sister in law. (Overly credulous family imho)
    Now I'm, well ... Less willing to give credence to the claims of people peddling snake oil that's already been proven false.
    Anyways, I go along with it, in the interests of having an open mind.
    It's a little uncomfortable as it's a strip of fabric and a foot wide and ten feet long positioned across the bed about at calf position. It's also connected via a wire plugged into the building ground. You know for the grounding.
    A week went by. No noticeable improvements in sleep. Partner takes it off the bed and contacts the company for a refund. They offer us 60% refund to just keep it rather than a full refund and send it back.
    I'm pretty convinced that they still made profit and that shows what the real cost/value of it was.

  7. I love how when I look up 6G it talks about all these crazy futuristic applications like holograms but the only reason I'm actually looking it up right now is because im on a 5G connection which currently has only 10mbps upload and I need something that isnt totally dogshit for remote desktop 🤪
    Why dont they just say remote desktop?

    #blog #quackery #tech #6g

  8. «Chiropractic medicine was born in the late 1890s, when Daniel David Palmer, a self-taught healer in Davenport, Iowa, claimed to restore a janitor’s hearing by realigning his spine. Palmer’s theory went far beyond anatomy: He believed that misaligned vertebrae — professionally known as subluxation — blocked the flow of 'innate intelligence', a vital spiritual force connecting body & soul.»

    Palmer also rejected the germ theory of disease

    politico.com/news/magazine/202

    #science #quackery #MAHA #BS

  9. #RFKJr #quackery

    "More Americans are injecting themselves with unapproved chemicals that are pitched as ways to build muscle, rejuvenate skin and extend life, the latest example of the nation’s fascination with alternative therapies and wellness hacks.

    Behind the trend is the surging popularity of GLP-1 weight loss medications, a class of so-called peptides approved to help users quickly shed pounds.

    But the peptides being promoted by influencers, celebrities and wellness gurus are different: Many have never been approved for human use and much of their purported evidence comes from studies in rats and other animals. Several peptides, such as BPC-157 and TB-500, are banned by international sports authorities as doping substances.

    'None of them are proven,' said Dr. Eric Topol, a research methods expert and director of Scripps Research Translational Institute. 'None of them have gone through what would be considered adequate clinical trials, but nonetheless many people are taking these. It’s actually quite extraordinary.'

    Those who’ve highlighted peptides’ benefits include Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has built a national following among Americans who are deeply skeptical of health experts, pharmaceutical companies and traditional medicine."

    apnews.com/article/peptide-inj

  10. I'm reading The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum which is a history of food adulteration in the US. There is a paragraph with a brief reference to a remedy for women's ailments and yikes. #food #medicine #potentpotables #quackery

  11. “A fool and his or her money are easily parted.” 🙄

    The world has always been full of hucksters & the gullible, but this cobblers feels symbolic of a time when any lie can be sold, and any ideas of evidence-based reality, policy, & decision-making have been washed away by a tide of gas-lighting & propaganda.

    This particular example may seem laughable, but it’s more insidious than that.

    #pseudoscience #quackery #heidelberg

  12. 19th century physicians heroically self-dosing. But I'm baffled by mention of homeopathy, the hoax in which you should expect ZERO molecules of the announced compound to appear in the dose. Like vermouth in an extremely dry martini, except not so overwhelmingly vermouth-saturated. Not even vaguely tainted. "Wave the gin-filled martini glass in the direction of France" as Winston Churchill or some wit put it.
    publicdomainreview.org/essay/p
    #medicine #history #homeopathy #quackery #cocktails

  13. I am writing about #disability, #supplements and #evidence (and how they’ve helped me, no forcing narrative or #quackery here!), and #mutualaid! I am a part time #working while #disabled #nonbinary person with several chronic conditions, including suspected #ME / #CFS Ko-fi.com/ccaera

  14. “[Robert F.] Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands."

    ~ Former CDC Director William Foege

    #RFKJr #healthcare #science #medicine #quackery #ignorance #nonsense #science #research #facts #vaccines

    statnews.com/2025/08/18/rfk-jr

  15. Just in case it needs to be said:

    Practising all this #quackery gives some people psychological relief. By all means, please do what it takes to feel good.

    Some people do tarantula poison, because it gives a high, and is addictive. It's a neurotoxin. It will eventually kill its consumer. But it feels good, from what I have read.

    My point is limited to the fact that "multidimensional trauma healing", "womb medicine" etc. are not scientific even if practising and preaching them feels good.

  16. I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has met his match as the biggest killer of the Homo Sapiens era.

    How incredibly stupid is this? SHOW us how you came to this conclusion, and provide us with open, peer-reviewed, papers that back up your claims.

    #moron #psuedoscience #quackery #NotScience #Science

  17. I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has met his match as the biggest killer of the Homo Sapiens era.

    How incredibly stupid is this? SHOW us how you came to this conclusion, and provide us with open, peer-reviewed, papers that back up your claims.

    #moron #psuedoscience #quackery #NotScience #Science

  18. I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has met his match as the biggest killer of the Homo Sapiens era.

    How incredibly stupid is this? SHOW us how you came to this conclusion, and provide us with open, peer-reviewed, papers that back up your claims.

    #moron #psuedoscience #quackery #NotScience #Science

  19. I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has met his match as the biggest killer of the Homo Sapiens era.

    How incredibly stupid is this? SHOW us how you came to this conclusion, and provide us with open, peer-reviewed, papers that back up your claims.

    #moron #psuedoscience #quackery #NotScience #Science

  20. I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has met his match as the biggest killer of the Homo Sapiens era.

    How incredibly stupid is this? SHOW us how you came to this conclusion, and provide us with open, peer-reviewed, papers that back up your claims.

    #moron #psuedoscience #quackery #NotScience #Science