Comments on: Huzzah for medicine that works

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:00:53 +0000

you big perv, lol love it x

By: Dr J

Dr J — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:18:25 +0000

Annie – [cont]: The Rath/ Goldacre tale also shows how keen the woo-merchants are to turn to the libel courts to bully dissenters into submission – so much easier than actually presenting any decent scientific evidence, isn’t it? See also the current delights of the British Chiropractic Association suing journalist Simon Singh after he dared to point out the lack of evidence for much of what they claimed to be able to treat.

Jess xxx – As a doctor, I have seen enough strange things that I try not to dismiss anything out-of-hand, but some people have a mind so open that they have let all sorts of rubbish fall in. Or, stick a homeopath in a typical GP surgery with 10 minutes per patient, and watch their patient satisfaction rates plummet faster than a politician’s integrity.

By: Dr J

Dr J — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:07:44 +0000

Annie – conventional medicine, unlike some alternative practitioners, does not claim to be able to cure HIV. But what it has presented vast amounts of good evidence for is that anti-retroviral treatment on average can greatly prolong reasonably healthy life. More importantly, conventional medicine has also shown good evidence that anti-retroviral drugs significantly reduce vertical transmission of HIV (ie from pregnant mother to baby). In a country ravaged by HIV like South Africa, such treatment could make a massive difference. Sadly, alternative therapists like Vitamin-Salesman Matthias Rath appear to have got in there – see Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science pages for that: http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/ [cont].

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“Huzzah for medicine that works” « Indigo, Indigo, tar deg med — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:17:25 +0000

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By: Jess xxx

Jess xxx — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:43:28 +0000

Hmmm….I used to be quite open-minded about things like homeopathy (for simple things, NOT stuff like malaria and diabetes,) but now I’m not so sure. ‘You can be open-minded until your brain falls out…’ I’ll have to think about this one.

By the way, does the black box covering that guy’s ding-dong REALLY need to be that big?

By: flapjack

flapjack — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:21:12 +0000

Here’s a tip I picked up from a pen I found in a dubious giftshop… If you turn the monitor upside down the black boxes disappear

By: Diana

Diana — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:37:44 +0000

Oh my! The crappy stereotype of the “sexy nurse.” Sorry fellas, in real life they wear real ugly uniforms, kinda like scrubs.

And there is NOTHING sexy about getting a catheter inserted up your you know what. Ouch!

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:52:16 +0000

How rude

PS: What time is it Mr Woolf?

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:22:36 +0000

…consistent

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:52:11 +0000

Malaria, TB, the runs, maybe. But HIV? Come on, neither homeopathy OR conventional medicine saved my mate, or the many others who die of it every year.

condemn homeopathy by all means, it’s a pile of poo, but please don’t hold up conventional medicine as a credible alternative, as far as HIV goes.

As for anthropocentrism – that’s a good point Xenephon and Derren make in the other blog – how do those sentiments fit with this blog post in view of the WHO’s requirement, and conventional medicine’s practice, that all drugs and procedures must first be tested on animals? If you accept conventional medicine you have to accept anthropocentrism because millions of animals will suffer, and be killed, in .pursuit of human health.

By all means, walk your own path, but please be…