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One Man’s Mission To Expose Medical Quackery

April 30th, 2008 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements, Quackery Exposed

Sorry for the late notice, folks… but Revolution Health’s sister site, HealthTalk, is hosting a call-in podcast with Dr. Stephen Barrett, founder of Quackwatch.org, TONIGHT. The name of the show is, “One Man’s Mission To Expose Medical Quackery” and Dr. Barrett is a polarizing figure for sure. Love him or hate him, it should be a great interview. To join, go to this page.

You can send in your questions in advance, listen to the call live (8:30pm EDT, Wednesday, April 30th), or listen to the podcast post-show. Hope to meet you there!

Here are a few of my recent posts about how to discern truth from error in medicine:

Good Science Makes Bad Television (And Other Truths)

The Three Pillars of Trustworthy Science: Credibility, Plausibility, and Reproducibility

Plausibility, Homeopathy, and Science Fiction

False Positive Research Findings: The Deck Is Stacked

Reproducibility: The Final Pillar of Trustworthy Science

The Rise of Snake Oil In America

The Placebo Effect: Whatever Works?This post originally appeared on Dr. Val’s blog at RevolutionHealth.com.

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