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Perles of Wisdom: Decompression - Yeah right
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Sunday, March 28, 2010. Decompression - Yeah right. Marketplace, a Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) investigative TV show did a piece on decompression. The regulatory board for chiropractors in ONT) after being notified by Marketplace, will be investigating the chiropractor in the news piece regarding his advertisements. So what are these non-surgical decompression machines? Are there people with low back pain for whom traction is helpful? Has published as the diagnosis-...
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Perles of Wisdom: Zero Tolerance - Sex With Patients
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Friday, February 5, 2010. Zero Tolerance - Sex With Patients. Image by Getty Images. The college's decision was based upon one salient fact, the doctor was having sex with a patient. The nature of their relationship was immaterial. Between the patient and the doctor that can never go beyond that relationship. For more details see the article in the Globe and Mail: Giving care to his girlfriend puts chiropractor in hot water. Dr Stephen M. Perle. Dr Stephen M. Perle.
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Perles of Wisdom: Uncientific America - A Pluto Moment
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Uncientific America - A Pluto Moment. Image by the mad LOLscientist. The LA Times (what not the NY Times) has an article about Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum's new book, Unscientific America. The article, by Lori Kozlowski, Bringing science back into America's sphere. Laments the pitiful state of America's understanding of science. Given how little the public knows about science Kozlowski writes:. In day-to-day life, as in science, we all r...
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Perles of Wisdom: The self-importance of being Ernst
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Thursday, December 16, 2010. The self-importance of being Ernst. Some may know Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest from which I've modeled the title of this blog entry. The play is a farce where obligations are shirked by assuming false identities. There is no discussion of false identities in this blog but there is a false presentation of objective science on the part of Dr. Edzard Ernst. As Wilde writes in Act 1. Here is a link to our letter to the editor.
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Perles of Wisdom: Anonymous Criticism - Defending Ernst
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Sunday, December 19, 2010. Anonymous Criticism - Defending Ernst. As with most bloggers who allow it I have received a variety of comments on my last blog, The self-importance of being Ernst. Generally it is my policy not to allow anonymous comments. Since I have the courage to identify myself in the blog I think anyone wanting to comment should do the same. Maybe that's my self-importance or it is my belief that one should have the courage of ones convictions. Neither o...
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Perles of Wisdom: Baseball and health care - evidence based care
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Thursday, September 24, 2009. Baseball and health care - evidence based care. Image by The Library of Congress. As I hear more debate (or is it partisan rancor - I mean despite obvious lies not one Democrat disrespected the office of the President and yelled to President Bush liar) regarding health care reform I am reminded of a remarkable Op-Ed piece from the NY Times (of course) by the strangest of bed fellows: Billy Beane, Newt Gingrich And John Kerry. John Wiens, DC.
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Ordinary to Extraordinary: Alone
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Musings of an Avid Freelance Photographer. Ordinary to extraordinary is a collection of freelance photography and a veritable cornucopia of random musings, made by Larry Wyatt. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). If you are interested in purchasing prints of my work, please contact me at: penumbrapix@gmail.com. Houston, Texas, United States. Avid freelance photographer, chef, woodworker, writer and all-around knuckleheaded blowhard. View my complete profile. Best Lighting Blog on the Net. Photo of the Day.
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Perles of Wisdom: Swine Poop - Swine Flu & Chiropractic II
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Swine Poop - Swine Flu and Chiropractic II. Image by Gonzalo Fernández. To quote President Reagan "there you go again". Once again a high profile chiropractor is there suggesting in a press release. That chiropractic spinal manipulation is part of a reasonable flu prevention strategy. See my previous blog entry on Swine Flu and Chiropractic. As Max Planck wrote in 1936:. An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way rapidly winning...
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Perles of Wisdom: Treatments That Don't Work
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Friday, April 3, 2009. Treatments That Don't Work. Despite his work the addition of citrus to the diets of sailors of the British Royal Navy was not universally accepted. Three lessons we can learn from Lind's work. Rigorous scientific experimentation can discover effective treatments (ones that "work"). An effective treatment does not validate ones theory about why the treatment is effective. There is a great anecdote about Dr. Paul Glasziou. Dr. Glasziou ha...I think w...
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Perles of Wisdom: Swine Flu & Chiropractic
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A forum for intellectual honesty. Friday, May 1, 2009. Swine Flu and Chiropractic. I recently saw a blog. Let's look at the argument in favor of chiropractic as part of how ones family should "respond to the threat of the flu.". I searched the National Library of Medicine's online database search system, PubMed to find any published paper by Dr. Pero on chiropractic. I can't find it. Here is that search. Which was Life Chiropractic College. For some reason there are a lot of people who make this mist...