#quackery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quackery, aggregated by home.social.
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I would love that these ‘people’ be prosecuted. The British (OK English but I don’t want to labour the point, we have our own nutters as well. people in glass houses etc etc..) Wakefield should be prevented from practicing anywhere.
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I would love that these ‘people’ be prosecuted. The British (OK English but I don’t want to labour the point, we have our own nutters as well. people in glass houses etc etc..) Wakefield should be prevented from practicing anywhere.
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An editorial critique of "integrative medicine," specifically as it relates to Quebec's Bill 191.
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An editorial critique of "integrative medicine," specifically as it relates to Quebec's Bill 191.
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You know, the one thing that irritates me about these people is never hearing them attempt to answer their own question: "Why isn't anyone else doing this?" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/04/study-rfk-jr-joe-rogans-misinformation-campaigns-led-to-a-38-increase-in-vitamin-a-poisoning-last-year/
#conspiracyTheories #criticalThinking #HHS #JoeRogan #measles #miracleCure #misinformation #quackery #RFKJr #snakeOil #vaccineHesitancy #vaccines -
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
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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
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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
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dr-oz-stunned-reaction-trump-170335362.html -
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
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dr-oz-stunned-reaction-trump-170335362.html -
Sad to see that University of Westminster has set up Centre for Nutraceuticals to promote the largely fraudulent "wellbeing" industry.
#quackery #nutribollocks #pseudoscience
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/university-of-westminster-celebrates-world-first-centre-for-nutraceuticals-dedicated-to-vitamin-and-food-supplement-innovation -
Sad to see that University of Westminster has set up Centre for Nutraceuticals to promote the largely fraudulent "wellbeing" industry.
#quackery #nutribollocks #pseudoscience
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/university-of-westminster-celebrates-world-first-centre-for-nutraceuticals-dedicated-to-vitamin-and-food-supplement-innovation -
"You never heard of [diseases] before 1989" - says some guy in charge of US HHS - https://youtu.be/uGo6xLLinjM?si=b_RuxA-kzg02OoUo #RFKJR #HHS #USHHS #VaccineConspiracies #CriticalThinking #ScienceBasedMedicine #quacks #quackery #RFK #SGU #SkepticsGuide #Science
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"You never heard of [diseases] before 1989" - says some guy in charge of US HHS - https://youtu.be/uGo6xLLinjM?si=b_RuxA-kzg02OoUo #RFKJR #HHS #USHHS #VaccineConspiracies #CriticalThinking #ScienceBasedMedicine #quacks #quackery #RFK #SGU #SkepticsGuide #Science
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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'.”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/health/rfk-vaccine-manufacturers.html
#healthcare #quackery #politics copy: @renewedresistance #Trump #WorstPresidentEver -
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'.”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/health/rfk-vaccine-manufacturers.html
#healthcare #quackery #politics copy: @renewedresistance #Trump #WorstPresidentEver -
@HannahHowe
Phosferine: alcohol, quinine and sulphuric acid. Mmm, yummy.
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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)
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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)
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#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. -
#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. -
A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Some speculators have a short way of accounting for the Pagan religion: mere quackery, priestcraft, and dupery, say they; no sane man ever did believe it, — merely contrived to persuade other men, not worthy of the name of sane, to believe it! It will be often our duty to protest against this sort of hypothesis about men’s doings and history; and I here, on the very threshold, protest against it in reference to Paganism, and to all other isms by which man has ever for a length of time striven to walk in this world. They have all had a truth in them, or men would not have taken them up. Quackery and dupery do abound; in religions, above all in the more advanced decaying stages of religions, they have fearfully abounded: but quackery was never the originating influence in such things; it was not the health and life of such things, but their disease, the sure precursor of their being about to die!
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/81123…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #corruption #falsegods #fraud #paganism #quackery #religion
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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?
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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 -
«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
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/06/maha-chiropractors-robert-f-kennedy-jr-00674307
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"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."
https://apnews.com/article/peptide-injections-rfk-maha-4d48e78a5d65658b4d6eac87818352e3
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"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."
https://apnews.com/article/peptide-injections-rfk-maha-4d48e78a5d65658b4d6eac87818352e3
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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
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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
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Should science fiction be restricted to scientifically literate people to avoid misleading common people about reality?
#sciencefiction #fiction #popscience #censorship #bookcensorship #science #pseudoscience #bookbans #moviecensorship #crackpots #quackery #falsebeliefs -
Should science fiction be restricted to scientifically literate people to avoid misleading common people about reality?
#sciencefiction #fiction #popscience #censorship #bookcensorship #science #pseudoscience #bookbans #moviecensorship #crackpots #quackery #falsebeliefs -
Should science fiction be restricted to scientifically literate people to avoid misleading common people about reality?
#sciencefiction #fiction #popscience #censorship #bookcensorship #science #pseudoscience #bookbans #moviecensorship #crackpots #quackery #falsebeliefs -
Should science fiction be restricted to scientifically literate people to avoid misleading common people about reality?
#sciencefiction #fiction #popscience #censorship #bookcensorship #science #pseudoscience #bookbans #moviecensorship #crackpots #quackery #falsebeliefs -
Why are crackpots attracted to the topics of the strictly regulated fields of engineering, medicine, law, and academia?
#crackpots #pseudoscience #quackery #snakeoil #liars #professionalsocieties #engineering #medicine #alternativemedicine #law #lawyers #sovereigncitizens #academia #universities #highereducation -
Why are crackpots attracted to the topics of the strictly regulated fields of engineering, medicine, law, and academia?
#crackpots #pseudoscience #quackery #snakeoil #liars #professionalsocieties #engineering #medicine #alternativemedicine #law #lawyers #sovereigncitizens #academia #universities #highereducation -
Why are crackpots attracted to the topics of the strictly regulated fields of engineering, medicine, law, and academia?
#crackpots #pseudoscience #quackery #snakeoil #liars #professionalsocieties #engineering #medicine #alternativemedicine #law #lawyers #sovereigncitizens #academia #universities #highereducation -
Why are crackpots attracted to the topics of the strictly regulated fields of engineering, medicine, law, and academia?
#crackpots #pseudoscience #quackery #snakeoil #liars #professionalsocieties #engineering #medicine #alternativemedicine #law #lawyers #sovereigncitizens #academia #universities #highereducation -
So smart, Dr. #TrumpVirus
> Borowitz: Study Links Trump Being President to Increased Use of Tylenol
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/study-links-trump-being-president -
So smart, Dr. #TrumpVirus
> Borowitz: Study Links Trump Being President to Increased Use of Tylenol
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/study-links-trump-being-president -
CW: Artificial text - On few occasion it's also funny. Meow
Okay, hear me out: a variolator subscription box! Monthly delivery of antique-inspired 'health' gadgets & questionable medical advice. We call it "The Quack Pack." 🩺📦 #variolators #quackery #history #subscribe
#BusinessIdea #Business #Ai #Llm #LlaMA2 -
CDC panel abandons COVID vaccine recommendation, saying it's a personal choice
Source: ABC News
#Covid-19
#RFK
#HHS
#Quackery
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RFK Jr. announces move to decertify organ procurement organization
Source: CBS News
#RFK #HHS #CDC #FDA #HHS
#Quackery
#MedievalMedicine
#PeopleWillDie
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“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.
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“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.
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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.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/proving-it-the-american-provers-union-documents-certain-ill-effects/
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