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Nominations for the 2023 Ockham Awards are open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.
A patient is dead because a naturopath dosed her with intravenous curcumin. Instead of learning from the debacle, naturopaths circle the wagon, and the chair of the Naturopathic Medicine Committee for the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs shows his intent to try to exonerate the naturopath responsible.
Naturopaths claim that licensing their profession will ensure a high standard of care and protect patients. The case of Jade Erick, who died as a result of intravenous curcumin administered by a naturopath puts the lie to that claim. We now know that the naturopath who killed Erick has pending complaints that the Naturopathic Medicine Committee has done little to act on, revealing its ineffectiveness.
Many thanks to Helen Keen, Iszi Lawrence, Britt Hermes and Professor Chris French for presenting the awards And our inaugural Rusty Razor Award for the worst pseudo-science went to Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop Some people covered The Rusty Razor Award 2017 this way: Gizmodo Daily Mail New York Daily […]
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