Posts Tagged ‘homeopathy’
Weekend Reading
It’s the May Long Weekend – in Canada at least. The flower above is the Trillium, commonly seen in cottage country at this time of year. Here’s some links, articles, and podcasts I enjoyed this week:
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Tags: GMOs, homeopathy
Weekend Reading
Here’s what’s keeping this pharmacist engaged and sometimes outraged: Health Canada explicitly puts the financial interests of homeopathy manufacturers above broader public health goals. From the BC Medical Journal, Health Canada licenses homeopathic vaccines: Remarkably, at the same time as Health Canada focuses on influenza education, flu shots, and other proven prevention measures, that same […]
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From ethicist Dr. Chris MacDonald, a column on Rexall’s recent advertisements promoting homeopathy: The problem, of course, is there’s no reliable evidence that homeopathy works, nor any plausible reason to think that it even could work. In commercial contexts, that’s pretty bad. And it’s worse still when the company selling the stuff is a company […]
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Weekend Reading
Articles and links of interest to advocates of science, medicine, and pharmacy:
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Tags: antiscience, GMOs, homeopathy, nutrition, TCM
The other day a parent asked me if she could give her 2-year-old Tylenol liquid along with some cough syrup she had purchased at the pharmacy. I was a bit surprised, as cough and cold products for young children have been pulled from pharmacy shelves for a few years given their lack of efficacy and […]
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Weekend Reading
It’s Family Day weekend in several provinces in Canada, and President’s Day weekend in the United States. Here’s what I’ve been reading:
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Tags: fluoridation, health canada, homeopathy, natural health products directorate, transparency
Has Dr. Oz Jumped the Shark?
It was bound to happen. It’s that moment in a television show when the deterioration is irreversible. For the popular 1970′s television sitcom Happy Days, it was when a water-skiing Fonzi literally jumped over a shark. And I think it may finally have happened with the Dr. Oz show. From a scientific credibility perspective, The […]
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Tags: dr. oz, homeopathy, medical ethics, medical quackery
Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia, was given some bad advice by a pharmacy: Last week I was in a pharmacy (chemist) in London just around the corner from my apartment there. I had a sore throat and cough and wanted to buy some soothing cough drops. I did, buying a brand that contains benzocaine. […]
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Tags: homeopathy, pharmacy ethics, pharmacy practice
Weekend Reading
Links, posts, and articles of interest to SBP readers:
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Tags: detox, health fraud, homeopathy, naturopathy, quackery, vaccines
I’ve been calling on pharmacies to stop selling homeopathy since my very first post, almost (gulp) four years ago. Despite looking like medication, homeopathy is an “alternative” medicine system invented in the 1800′s which rejects established facts about biochemistry, physics, and pharmacology. If homeopathy works, then the rest of medicine we rely on could not […]
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