Category Archives: Astroturf

Sinus Based Medicine

By Peter D'AdamoAugust 20, 2018Astroturf, Bullshit Vending, Pseudo-skepticism

‘People don’t have ideas, ideas have people.’ —Carl Jung Science Based Medicine (SBM), the self-styled parser of all that is untrue, fraudulent, and unbelievable in modern clinical medicine, has a long history of trashing medical theories and methods that don’t fit their particular standards for ‘evidence.’ It’s a breathtakingly ambitious title for a website, since

Adding Salt (and Sugar) to the Wound

By Peter D'AdamoAugust 15, 20182 commentsAstroturf, Dietary Supplements, Nutrition, Public Health

When writing the revised edition of Eat Right For Your Type, I alluded to the difficulties of doing nutritional and dietary research, and used salt as a prime example. It has been suggested that a statistically significant, well-powered study on the health effects of salt would have to enroll 28,000 patients for at least five