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Insurance companies could be forced to pay for faith healing and the Christian Science movement is ready to cash in.
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We're told to be civil and careful when addressing anti-vaccines activists. But the anti-vaxxers seldom share the same view of dealing with experts and critics.
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Researchers recommend a flu shot even in years when it's not very effective. Why? Because it slows the spread of the virus.
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The media is actively enabling anti-vaccination hysteria for the sake of ratings just when we need people to get the H1N1 shot and prevent the further spread of swine flu.
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Alternative medicine makers are happy to bash Big Pharma for poor testing and failed drugs, but not testing their own wares is the key to their profitability.
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Researchers find more evidence that alternative medicine practitioners are a public health menace.
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Quack extraordinaire Mike Adams has crossed a line from typical snake oil salesmanship to predatory fear-mongering.
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A premiere pediatric hospital is being awfully friendly to anti-vaccine and homeopathic cranks and quacks.
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Homeopaths are dangerous enough in developed countries. They could be a devastating malice in the third world.
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"Sure she's a public health menace, and sure she's an ignoramus. But isn't she so pretty and outspoken?"
# tech
Would you pay $6,000 for advice from a doctor who claims he could help you live longer by making it up as he goes along?
# oddities
Australian anti-vaccine activists are joining forces with a man who thinks that shape-shifting alien reptoids secretly run the world.
# politics
The American healthcare system is best compared to a sophisticated machine with many moving. A badly maintained Rube Goldberg to be more exact.
# health
Cell phones might not give you cancer, but tanning beds absolutely can and we have proof.
# health
Swine flu may have disappeared from the news, but it's still out there and it's still a threat as it mutates further.
