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Brace yourselves. The anti-vax crusade is taking its chemophobia and love for cleansing to a whole new level.
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How do we make sense of the alt med claim that Big Pharma is just trying to keep people sick for a profit?
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Marc Stephens, a lawyer for the infamous Burzynski Clinic, decided that the best way to meet skeptics is with unhinged conspiracy theories and harassment.
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Anti-vaxers are vehemently opposed to a bill that would require doctors to explain how vaccines work on the basis that it would require them to leave their echo chambers and might sway parents on the fence to vaccinate.
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Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.
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The two rules of alt med business. One, there's no regulation strict enough for Big Pharma. Two, any regulation, no matter how token, is too onerous for snake oil manufacturers.
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The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.
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Instead of helping Africans combat the spread of AIDS, the Catholic Church keeps pouring gasoline on the fire.
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Two scientists submit the applications that an opening for a homeopathic doctor deserved...
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National healthcare systems are getting sick and tired of paying for expensive placebos.