Complementary Meds @compandalt

Thank you @ebtapper for your review of my non-fiction book The Liver Doctor published by @HarperCollinsIN! I truly appreciate your insights on the book and for recommending it! It was an ode to Hepatology...and to Hepatologists...and to every clinical doctor out there. And of course, the patients. @AASLDtweets @EASLnews @APASLnews Bringing the Urgency of Hepatology Into Public Consciousness by Professor Elliot B Tapper docwirenews.com/post/bringing-… The Liver Doctor (Harper Collins India) harpercollins.co.in/product/the-li…

How about instead the list of 200,000-300,000 Americans who needlessly died from Covid bc they fell victim to a disgusting antivaccine disinformation campaign and refused Covid vaccines. It was led by the Murdoch media empire, Fox News, News Corps, Rogan podcasts, the corrupt wellness influencer industry pushing ivermectin, and of course RFK Jr and his organizations. They killed Americans. All documented in two books, my 2023 book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-science @JHUPress and #ScienceUnderSiege our 2025 book with @MichaelEMann @public_affairs

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In a study of 1 901 815 cancer patients, those who chose alternative medicine had a 2-fold greater risk of death compared with patients who had no alternative medicine use. And it’s probably because they refused conventional care: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…

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Yet another assessment of #osteopathy found a lack of good evidence of effectiveness for low back pain.

Edzard Ernst @EdzardErnst

5 days ago

Official German assessment of osteopathy for non-specific low back pain edzardernst.com/2026/07/offici… via @EdzardErnst

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This "study" is an unscientific cherry picked biased piece of trash. An opinion piece dressed up as science. A con, a scam, garbage nonsense. That's the nicest I can be about it

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher

a week ago

The thirty-year lie that “vaccines don’t cause autism” has officially been OBLITERATED. We sent our 52-page autism study directly to RFK Jr... Just weeks later, the CDC updated its website to say: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is NOT an evidence-based claim.”

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Quack prescribes unapproved drug. Regulator does its job and suspends her. ThEy’Re PuNiShInG Me! #QuackTrinh

Alternative medicine practitioner: “Pharma shill!” Same alternative medicine practitioner: “Use a discount code to buy my supplements!”

Supporters of #homeopathy like to try and claim that it a "system of medicine", e.g. google.com/amp/s/www.firs… In reality, there is only one system of medicine. Treatments that are shown to work get added to it. Homeopathy doesn't work so should never be part of medicine

This is an excellent article that clearly explains the fraud that is "immune boosters". In short, they have no benefits and can carry risks of side effects.

TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc

2 weeks ago

Dear friends, please read this invited article I wrote for @IndianExpress on the myth of immune boosters, with a note on vaccines. Kindly share with your friends and family. This is a #mustread, lots of doubts cleared. Why Vitamin C and immunity boosters are not what you

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"The #RCT is not colonial oppression; it distinguishes interventions that work from those that do not" new @bmj_latest Editorial by @theliverdoc @CaulfieldTim @Cath77777 on @WHO push for #TCIM traditional, complementary, alternative & integrative medicine bmj.com/content/393/bm…

Hi, actual scientist here 👋 Science doesn’t work by proving a negative. You don’t prove unicorns don’t exist. You look for evidence they do and if none shows up, you move on. And here’s what we’ve found after decades of research: Millions of children. Dozens of studies. Multiple countries. Same result every time: No causal link between vaccines and autism That’s not uncertainty. That’s overwhelming evidence. Saying “well you can’t rule it out completely” isn’t science. It’s appeal to ignorance - pretending “not disproven” is the same as “possible.” If we accepted that logic, we’d have to fear: 🧪 Organic broccoli causing autism 📺 Television causing autism. 🌦 Clouds causing autism. Because nobody has “ruled them out” either. Science isn’t about imagining risks. It’s about measuring them and vaccines have been measured more than almost anything else in medicine. So let’s be clear: 💉 Vaccines have evidence. ❌ The autism claim has none.

1/ Antivax claim: “mRNA COVID vaccines are gene therapy.” No. That confuses “genetic instructions” with “gene therapy.” mRNA vaccines deliver a temporary RNA message that helps cells make a viral protein fragment so the immune system can learn to recognize SARS-CoV-2. They do not modify your genes.

This is very good news! Unfortunately, there are always a few antivaxxers posting ridiculous fake news replies...

The Lancet @TheLancet

2 weeks ago

Currently approved mRNA vaccines are safe and effective at preventing infectious diseases, with promise for future disease prevention and treatment, new review confirms. Read more: spkl.io/601671q3i

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Annual reminder for India's Ayush fraternity on National Doctors Day.

Still wondering about #homeopathy? It's a fake treatment with no evidence of effectiveness for any health condition. Look at this extensive list of independent evaluations by these widely recognised organisations

Edzard Ernst @EdzardErnst

3 weeks ago

If anyone tells you that only misinformed skeptics oppose homeopathy, show them this: a list of independent evaluations by internationally respected organisations edzardernst.com/2026/03/if-any… via @EdzardErnst

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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.

Good morning. This is urgent, for public information. The second paper on cow research funded using India's public money under the SUTRA-PIC (Scientific Utilization through Research Augmentation - Prime Products from Indigenous Cows program) has undergone exhaustive post-publication peer review. The paper was published in Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology last year. The authors are from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) BHU-Varanasi and Birla Institute of Technology (BITS)-Pilani. This is the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100… This study was done in Uttar Pradesh and the total amount of public money given was INR 31,04,162. The authors studied cow urine of different breeds and found "special" components in the cow urine that they claim will have major use applications in healthcare, technology and engineering. They are wrong. The paper is a third-rate publication with poorly performed and grossly misinterpreted and falsified results of basic analytical chemistry. An official email for Expression of Concern and investigation into scientific integrity has been mailed to: @SpringerNature Ethics Team and Journal Editors-in-Chief (personal email) - Matthew P. DeLisa PhD at Cornell University, Ye Ni PhD at Jiangnan University and Benedict Okeke PhD at Auburn University. Here is the lay summary of the paper's forensic analysis: Lab contamination has been (un)intentionally ignored by authors. The researchers mistook common lab contaminants, like plastic chemicals and solvents, for natural cow urine compounds. They failed to run basic control tests to catch these obvious errors. Impossible chemicals claimed to be found in cow urine by authors. The paper claims to have found impossible synthetic chemicals in the urine, such as a banned pesticide, human prescription drugs, and toxic metals. This shows the authors blindly trusted computer software without checking if the results even made biological sense. Fake health claims made by the authors. The authors boast about the amazing health benefits of over twenty different chemicals, claiming they fight cancer and bacteria. However, none of these specific chemicals were actually found anywhere in their own data or in the urine of various cows they tested. Contradictory results are all over the place. The written text of the paper directly contradicts its own data tables. The researchers claim to have found certain groups of chemicals, like steroids, that are completely missing from their actual results. Terrible referencing throughout the paper. The study's citations are completely mismatched, scrambled, and duplicated. They even cite unrelated plant studies and reviews on toxic chemicals to support their claims about the "benefits" of cow urine. Zero statistics and flawed setup degrade the conclusions. The study lacks basic statistical analysis, sometimes testing as few as one cow per breed. They also failed to separate the cow's breed from its age, diet, or location, making their "breed-specific" conclusions totally invalid. Misleading graphs are plastered all over. The graphs that are supposed to show specific, individual chemicals actually show messy mixtures of dozens of different compounds. These graphs look suspiciously identical to each other, raising serious concerns about image manipulation. Thanks to the Government for destroying the scientific fabric and the rational temperament of its science instituitions. We wont forget.

What this paper actually shows is that #acupuncture is not effective for illicit drug use disorders. In spite of the negative result, the authors still try to apply a positive spin. As @EdzardErnst says " a classic case of presenting a negative result as a positive finding!"

Edzard Ernst @EdzardErnst

a month ago

#Acupuncture for illicit drug use disorders? No, I don't think so! edzardernst.com/2026/06/acupun… via @edzardernst

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The danger of the immense success of vaccines is that many people - including physicians - have never encountered these diseases before. Prevention is easy to underestimate because success looks like nothing happening. Until it’s not.

A toxicology journal has retracted a 16-year-old study linking hepatitis B vaccines to autism in children following an independent statistical review that found a half-dozen concerns with the study’s methodology. retractionwatch.com/2026/06/04/jou…