Editor of an anti-quackery website with a strong focus on chiropractic (which needs to be defined unambiguously).
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Blue Wode retweeted
This makes for interesting reading, particularly this "a limited evidence base does not, of itself, establish that a technique is unsafe or ineffective". Actually, until a treatment has been clearly shown to be effective then it is assumed to be ineffective.
Chief Executive of the UK General Chiropractic Council reflects on "trying something new" edzardernst.com/2026/09/chie… via @edzardernst
Blue Wode retweeted
Wendy Weber, a naturopath, now leads NCCIH. Let the quackery flow (even more)! sciencebasedmedicine.org/wen… via @sciencebasedmed
Blue Wode retweeted
The recommendations for chiropractors treating infants should simply read: "As a chiropractor you are not qualified to treat infants. Refer any infants who attend your practice to a competent medical practitioner."
Recommendations for history taking, examination and clinical management of infants in chiropractic practice edzardernst.com/2026/08/reco… via @edzardernst #SinghBCA Quackery for children.
Blue Wode retweeted
This will result in the unnecessary death of children:
Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3q…
Blue Wode retweeted
This article and the associated responses are well worth a read. The article is clear and evidence based. The responses highlight many of the problems with complementary and alternative therapies - they are based on belief and are unscientific with no evidence base.
Dear friends, if you have missed this, our invited Editorial for the BMJ is flaming hot now. Thousands of reads and nearly 19 (accepted ones) detailed Rapid Responses, mostly from Indian Ayurvedic industry and practitioners; and from developing/under-developed countries where traditional medicine is "belief" without "evidence" - because when there is no data, "faith" works for those who are not scientifically temperamental.
Please read our article. It is creating lot of buzz globally and has struck where it has to: bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026… + @CaulfieldTim @Cath77777
Please go through the Rapid Responses here
bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026…
Some are logical responses and concerns, and we will be sending in author replies to those, while most others are wholly AI generated beautiful chaos. While others, really made us chuckle (because there seems to be a lot of whataboutery and logical fallacies that are unmissable) because the existential crisis of the alternative medicine industry and practitioners and stakeholders was palpable.
You can also reply to those responses or read our paper and send us your thoughts/ opinions here:
bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026…
Please share our work. WHO has (without consensus) renamed Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) to Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) to falsely legitimize and promote propaganda to brainwash people into thinking that alternative medicine has a place in healthcare (in the form of integrative medicine) - but it does not.
CAM is still the right term, because TCIM is still CAM.
Blue Wode retweeted
Scientific plausibility refers to an overall understanding of a scientific question based on existing evidence.
The Achilles' heel of many unequivocal pseudoscientific practices lies in their glaring scientific implausibility.
In other words, principles that underpin such practices (e.g., homeopathy, energy healing, etc.) are completely divorced from the broader scientific literature.
Alternative medicine proponents don’t know what to do with scientific plausibility other than to blame the role of science in health care or dismiss the literature itself.
Blue Wode retweeted
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must be removed from office asap. edzardernst.com/2026/06/robe… via @edzardernst
Blue Wode retweeted
A worrying trend over recent years has been the increasing use of nonsensical pseudoscientific "treatments" for animals. Animal #chiropractic is one example. It's nonsense with no evidence of effectiveness for any condition
Blue Wode retweeted
Alternative medicine.
Integrative Medicine.
Functional Medicine.
None of these are medicine.
They are marketing scams.
They’re deceptive and illusory Trojan-horse labels designed precisely to sneak pseudoscience into health care.
Blue Wode retweeted
In babies and children, #chiropractic treatment has not been found effective for any health condition. A treatment with zero benefit and serious risks such as those below should not be offered to this patient group
Pediatric [20-month-old] vertebral artery dissection and ischemic stroke following #chiropractic manipulation tinyurl.com/4hfue226 Wholly preventable. #SinghBCA cc @EdzardErnst @ScienceBasedMed @Compandalt
Blue Wode retweeted
On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”
Read the latest issue: spkl.io/6011Aa3Et
ALT Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: \u201CThe destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.\u201D
Blue Wode retweeted
In this piece I’m quoted about how RFK’s actions should come as no surprise to anyone. This is exactly what one would expect when an anti-vaccine activist is given the power of government to enact their irrational agenda npr.org/2026/02/28/nx-s1-573…
Blue Wode retweeted
Much like #chiropractic, the ideas behind #osteopathy were developed before much of modern science and medicine. The "interrelationship between structure and function" might have seemed a good idea 150 years ago but since then medicine has progressed and it's now clearly nonsense
Blue Wode retweeted
I agree with the below post. #chiropractic treatments have little or no evidence of effectiveness for any health condition, pseudoscientific ideas are widespread and misleading advertising is commonplace. In the UK, #osteopathy suffers from many of the same issues.
Chiropractic may be the biggest evidence-to-marketing mismatch I’ve seen in wellness. Numbers in the UK are growing every year, but the serious risks aren't justified by the imaginary benefits.
#chiropractic #pseudoscience
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Chiropractors aren't doctors. "Chiropractors should take care not to imply that they hold a general medical qualification if they do not." : asa.org.uk/advice-online/use…
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Text neck is modern day snake oil promoted by grifters trying to sell you a fix for it… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3329…
