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<title>QuackCast. Revenant Edition</title><link>http://www.quackcast.com/index.html</link><description>A skeptical review of SCAM&#x27;s </description><dc:language>en</dc:language><language>en</language><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2008-2025 Mark A Crislip</dc:rights><dc:date>2026-05-16T14:35:42-07:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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Revenant Editio</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A review of SCAM: Supplements&#x2c; Complementary and Alternative Medicine</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_channel.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><item><title>Quackcast 251: Natural History</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Health&#x26;Fitness</category><dc:date>2026-05-16T14:35:42-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/df3f43fb0372f4aa15b22d98f410dd86-267.html#unique-entry-id-267</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/df3f43fb0372f4aa15b22d98f410dd86-267.html#unique-entry-id-267</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_267.mp3" length="8632994" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Health&#x26;Fitness"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>End of summer hodgepodge</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_267.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 250: Traditional Medicine Based Extinction. An Update.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Health&#x26;Fitness</category><dc:date>2026-05-13T15:10:40-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2294af0aafe6efe5594eb35597d63de7-264.html#unique-entry-id-264</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2294af0aafe6efe5594eb35597d63de7-264.html#unique-entry-id-264</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_264.mp3" length="21742886" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Traditional Medicine Based Extinction continues apace.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_264.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 249: A Healing Garden</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Health&#x26;Fitness</category><dc:date>2025-10-07T14:44:57-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9800cf42e18ef924134e871edf201f01-263.html#unique-entry-id-263</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9800cf42e18ef924134e871edf201f01-263.html#unique-entry-id-263</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_263.mp3" length="23249738" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Health&#x26;Fitness"/><itunes:subtitle>A Review oif SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Evaluating claims at the Aidalide Botanical Garden</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 248 (No 247): Infection Control/Infection Prevention</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Health&#x26;Fitness</category><dc:date>2025-10-06T14:39:44-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/27e7c7d5ab6dceefe1b84f47cb65ee48-262.html#unique-entry-id-262</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/27e7c7d5ab6dceefe1b84f47cb65ee48-262.html#unique-entry-id-262</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_262.mp3" length="8954200" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Healthh&#x26;Fitness"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The current administration&#x2c; in its ongoing effort to make sure infectious disease doctors have enough work&#x2c; has disbanded The CDC Infection Control committee&#x2c; the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_262.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 246: Acupuncture Paradox?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Health&#x26;Fitness</category><dc:date>2025-10-03T15:05:55-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/535338cde656edffd5b02024d8824173-261.html#unique-entry-id-261</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/535338cde656edffd5b02024d8824173-261.html#unique-entry-id-261</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_261.mp3" length="12339637" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Health&#x26;Beauty"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAMs.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Watch acupuncturists avoid the obvious.</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 245: Vitamin A&#x2c; Infections and Measles</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Health&#x26;Fitness</category><dc:date>2025-10-02T15:04:40-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3ac97809079c436311e52f5e66e4e696-260.html#unique-entry-id-260</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3ac97809079c436311e52f5e66e4e696-260.html#unique-entry-id-260</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_260.mp3" length="14261743" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Health&#x26;Fitness"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Reviewing vitamin A&#x2c; Infections and Measles</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_260.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 244: It&#x27;s the end of the world as I know it. 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Perhaps.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_250.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 235: TCPM Tongue Diagnosis</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2024-09-30T15:39:02-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b587ce42ee3d8e14001b95de59006243-249.html#unique-entry-id-249</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b587ce42ee3d8e14001b95de59006243-249.html#unique-entry-id-249</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_249.mp3" length="15876531" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Quackcast 235: TCPM Tongue Diagnosis</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Tongue diagnosis: a fictional diagnostic used to make a fictional diagnosis so a fictional therapy can be used.</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 234: Best Hospital Eye Roll </title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2024-09-27T16:01:44-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9d48ef42d59f806e3f37018e275d1fc7-247.html#unique-entry-id-247</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9d48ef42d59f806e3f37018e275d1fc7-247.html#unique-entry-id-247</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_247.mp3" length="46260493" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 233: More Unneeded Adjectives</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2024-06-23T15:41:59-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a20ef76ff16fd947305103be8e206139-246.html#unique-entry-id-246</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a20ef76ff16fd947305103be8e206139-246.html#unique-entry-id-246</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_246.mp3" length="19482331" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A Review of SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Science needs no adjectives.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_246.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 232: Boosting. What To Do</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2024-02-09T11:57:25-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/506b7ba2bf3db56db2875b13ba0ad81c-245.html#unique-entry-id-245</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/506b7ba2bf3db56db2875b13ba0ad81c-245.html#unique-entry-id-245</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_245.mp3" length="22569730" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Boosting the immune system. 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Same as it ever was at the Annals of Internal Medicine.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_244.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 230:  Adjectives</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2024-02-07T11:32:21-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2a4b5990261159109598164a6f3598c4-243.html#unique-entry-id-243</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2a4b5990261159109598164a6f3598c4-243.html#unique-entry-id-243</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_243.mp3" length="9569004" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Is powerful an adjective for placebo? Nope.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_243.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 229:  Eradication Isn&#x2019;t Extinction. Too Bad</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2024-02-05T14:16:59-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b4ecc0f356ae10064eee095c6d700347-242.html#unique-entry-id-242</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b4ecc0f356ae10064eee095c6d700347-242.html#unique-entry-id-242</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_242.mp3" length="13190061" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:keywords>Alternative Medicine, Skepticism</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>A Review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Some ramblings about polio and smallpox.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_242.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 228: Spontaneous Human Combustion</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-10-27T14:12:52-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3302852897986d6f4d8d7d513ad01656-240.html#unique-entry-id-240</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3302852897986d6f4d8d7d513ad01656-240.html#unique-entry-id-240</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_240.mp3" length="20517736" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAMa</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Lets see what the medical literature has to say about spontaneous human combustion&#x2c; shall we?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_240.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 227: I Reject Your Medical Reality and I Substitute Death</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-09-30T14:27:48-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fdc3e263650dda12a565fa576688aa56-239.html#unique-entry-id-239</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fdc3e263650dda12a565fa576688aa56-239.html#unique-entry-id-239</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_239.mp3" length="10656695" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Denying reality and substituting his own worked for Adam Savage. Not so much as an approach to COVID.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_239.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 226: Madonna?&#x21;?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-08-08T10:17:49-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/60ea05d1cf3db2be8b5da339dc721c89-238.html#unique-entry-id-238</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/60ea05d1cf3db2be8b5da339dc721c89-238.html#unique-entry-id-238</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_238.mp3" length="9577199" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Remembering the old days of Madonna&#x2c; courting&#x2c; and naloxone use.&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 225: Courage</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-07-26T12:44:50-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d55e1b8561aced51b94353c32392bf6f-237.html#unique-entry-id-237</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d55e1b8561aced51b94353c32392bf6f-237.html#unique-entry-id-237</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_237.mp3" length="14901363" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A reveiw of SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>If I were King of the Vaccines. Some thoughts on influenza vaccine&#x2c; hospitalization&#x2c; death and courage.&#xa;&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 224: The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-06-13T15:35:36-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c15efda9a93c7cf77176bd9731959b3b-236.html#unique-entry-id-236</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c15efda9a93c7cf77176bd9731959b3b-236.html#unique-entry-id-236</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_236.mp3" length="13751016" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Chiropractic neck manipulation can lead to stroke. Chiropractors deny that reality&#x2c; amoung others.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_236.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 223: Acupuncture Myths</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-05-23T19:29:59-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4141d6dcb00199df5c7affb17364f634-235.html#unique-entry-id-235</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4141d6dcb00199df5c7affb17364f634-235.html#unique-entry-id-235</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_235.mp3" length="15884437" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A evaluation of scams.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Acupuncturists use evidence to debunk acupuncture myths. I am underwhelmed.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_235.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 222: Part of a Complete Breakfast</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-04-16T13:15:01-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b8eff6dd4a36d8fffd6c6c8a5c406bf5-234.html#unique-entry-id-234</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b8eff6dd4a36d8fffd6c6c8a5c406bf5-234.html#unique-entry-id-234</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_234.mp3" length="23496704" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Thoughts on the Cochrane review and masking.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_234.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 221: Bovine Pancreatic Insuffciency</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-03-17T13:52:45-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/50834d1959dd5d2257afb31efb21e840-233.html#unique-entry-id-233</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/50834d1959dd5d2257afb31efb21e840-233.html#unique-entry-id-233</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_233.mp3" length="10008316" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A rview of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Does fluvoxaime have effects on COVID 45? Nope.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_233.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 220: Diagnostic Reflections</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-02-25T14:03:03-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/24056a6883e289030949475a6f5a1f0f-231.html#unique-entry-id-231</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/24056a6883e289030949475a6f5a1f0f-231.html#unique-entry-id-231</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_231.mp3" length="20909864" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Diagnostic Reflections</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>At the end of a long and storied career&#x2c; thoughts on making the diagnosis.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_231.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 219: Serologies</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2023-01-03T15:59:26-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e631211580effde3adc161640b648ea7-230.html#unique-entry-id-230</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e631211580effde3adc161640b648ea7-230.html#unique-entry-id-230</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_230.mp3" length="14277882" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Just because the serology is positive it doesn&#x2019;t mean you have the disease.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_230.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 218: The Beekeeper. Sentinal Chicken?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2022-12-15T15:37:03-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/62d5293c69a67cfd40a8fe2c38e33592-228.html#unique-entry-id-228</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/62d5293c69a67cfd40a8fe2c38e33592-228.html#unique-entry-id-228</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_228.mp3" length="13577321" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Does bee venom have theraputic effects? Nurp.</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 217: Some Sepsis Stuff</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2022-11-11T15:53:40-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8e6797a927e3623cd02310e89664da8c-226.html#unique-entry-id-226</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8e6797a927e3623cd02310e89664da8c-226.html#unique-entry-id-226</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_226.mp3" length="19909751" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of NRLM </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Some failed approaches to sepsis&#x2c; real and alternative</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_226.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 216: Alternative Reproduction?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2022-09-27T17:10:32-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/52647001aae9d43854c126c74516562b-225.html#unique-entry-id-225</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/52647001aae9d43854c126c74516562b-225.html#unique-entry-id-225</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_225.mp3" length="19891205" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A review of SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>SCAMs for contraception&#x2c; fertility and abortion? Nope.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_225.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 215: Homeopathy and COVID 45: The Toothless Old Man Laughs</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2022-08-29T13:06:41-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0acdb01f8d1b57b6c26d64ff56a9d1c8-224.html#unique-entry-id-224</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0acdb01f8d1b57b6c26d64ff56a9d1c8-224.html#unique-entry-id-224</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_224.mp3" length="18971231" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Quackcast 215: Homeopathy and COVID 45: The Toothless Old Man Laughs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>As Billy Preston noted&#x2c; &#x201c;Nothin&#x2019; from nothin&#x2019; leaves nothin&#x27;&#x201d;. And so it is with Homeopathy and COVID 45. Catholicon.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_224.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 214: Zeno&#x27;s Paradox</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2022-08-01T18:05:46-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/27b2996a6d70689776a17a25d1ec6e36-223.html#unique-entry-id-223</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/27b2996a6d70689776a17a25d1ec6e36-223.html#unique-entry-id-223</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_223.mp3" length="23209530" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Zeno&#x27;s Paradpx</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Time says acupuncure is making it into mainstream medicine.  Nope</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_223.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 213: A Pox on all our houses</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2022-06-19T11:34:20-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bc2c46efb01d5aa3b6b7a97ce767504e-222.html#unique-entry-id-222</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bc2c46efb01d5aa3b6b7a97ce767504e-222.html#unique-entry-id-222</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_222.mp3" length="18112075" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A pox on all our houses</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Monkeypox ramblings.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_222.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 212: Yes. I Remember it Well. A COVID 45 Retrospective</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2022-05-25T15:30:35-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/582d4ef6e1493f94ce67545af3f7acd7-221.html#unique-entry-id-221</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/582d4ef6e1493f94ce67545af3f7acd7-221.html#unique-entry-id-221</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_221.mp3" length="21340023" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Yes. I Remember it Well. A COVID 45 Retrospective</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>With faltering memory&#x2c; questionable opinions&#x2c; and sketchy references&#x2c; an infectious disease revenant reflects on the last 2.5 years of COVID 45. Grizzly bear assault free. As in no assault&#x2c; not the price of a Grizzly bear assault.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_221.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 211: Vitamin C and Sepsis. All Sound and Fury? Much Ado About Nothing?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-04-08T16:44:06-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5858f651c0436a40095a73e226a998f4-220.html#unique-entry-id-220</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5858f651c0436a40095a73e226a998f4-220.html#unique-entry-id-220</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_220.mp3" length="6500778" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Vitamin C and Sepsis. All Sound and Fury? Much Ado About Nothing?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Is intravenous vitamin C helpful in sepsis? I hope so&#x2c; but past experience render me skeptical.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_220.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 210: Treating the Terrain of Chronic Sinus Infections. A LAc of understanding.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-04-08T16:42:26-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/85f4f29b77339b2ca56840be8ce24767-218.html#unique-entry-id-218</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/85f4f29b77339b2ca56840be8ce24767-218.html#unique-entry-id-218</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_218.mp3" length="7920502" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Treating the Terrain of Chronic Sinus Infections. A LAc of understanding.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Acupuncture Today. &#x201c;Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch&#x21;&#x201d; It is because they LAc an understanding of medicine.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_218.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 209: Influenza Vaccine and Health Care Workers. More than one way to skin a literature</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-03-11T16:22:46-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1937897f1d6b1a4a5f9085b889cfbe98-217.html#unique-entry-id-217</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1937897f1d6b1a4a5f9085b889cfbe98-217.html#unique-entry-id-217</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_217.mp3" length="7775348" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Influenza Vaccine and Health Care Workers. More than one way to skin a literature</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Influenza Vaccine and Health Care Workers. More than one way to skin a literature</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_217.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 208: Spinal Manipulation for Back and Neck Pain: Does It Work? Annotated.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-03-11T13:51:53-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0f048fa123d792b530c0b57690f43c0e-216.html#unique-entry-id-216</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0f048fa123d792b530c0b57690f43c0e-216.html#unique-entry-id-216</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_216.mp3" length="11042453" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Spinal Manipulation for Back and Neck Pain: Does It Work? Annotated.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Spinal Manipulation for Back and Neck Pain: Does It Work? You would think it does if you read the article but not if you actually read the literature.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_216.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 207: Board Disciplinary Actions. What Naturopaths Really Do Not Want You To Know</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-03-11T13:50:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/7654bc1600f3467e33b429765e55abc0-215.html#unique-entry-id-215</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/7654bc1600f3467e33b429765e55abc0-215.html#unique-entry-id-215</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_215.mp3" length="5615219" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Board Disciplinary Actions. What Naturopaths Really Do Not Want You To Know</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Disciplinary actions against ND&#x2019;s in Oregon by the Board. How to find them and what they are.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_215.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 206: Chinese BioMedical Research: Sturgeon&#x2019;s Law In Action</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-03-11T13:20:24-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0d6fa59fd81f3b3b09e730fac6b1dafb-214.html#unique-entry-id-214</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0d6fa59fd81f3b3b09e730fac6b1dafb-214.html#unique-entry-id-214</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_214.mp3" length="4061580" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chinese BioMedical Research: Sturgeon&#x2019;s Law In Action</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A Chinese government investigation has found that 80&#x25;&#x2c; yes eighty percent&#x2c; of Chinese biomedical research is fabricated. I bet that is an underestimate for Traditional Chinese Pseudo-Medicine.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_214.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 205: Acupuncture&#x2019;s Big Myth</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-01-07T14:28:54-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1703235395bd634dd91c3982693d4d2d-212.html#unique-entry-id-212</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1703235395bd634dd91c3982693d4d2d-212.html#unique-entry-id-212</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_212.mp3" length="6008218" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture&#x2019;s Big Myth</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>That there is a thing called acupuncture.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_212.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 204: It&#x2019;s Hard Out There for a Psychic</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-01-07T14:26:31-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/dd7c1e185bc9744e12694b589a3e0687-211.html#unique-entry-id-211</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/dd7c1e185bc9744e12694b589a3e0687-211.html#unique-entry-id-211</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_211.mp3" length="4229023" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle> It&#x2019;s Hard Out There for a Psychic</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>There is no difference between a psychic scam and a pseudo-medical SCAM.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_211.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 203: Reiki and Therapeutic Touch. Compare and Contrast</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-01-07T14:24:42-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e0e7cd60d305c8f99b8b5b3e02b70869-210.html#unique-entry-id-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e0e7cd60d305c8f99b8b5b3e02b70869-210.html#unique-entry-id-210</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_210.mp3" length="8315458" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Reiki and Therapeutic Touch. Compare and Contrast</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>An update on a popular pseudo-science.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_210.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 202: Blue Light. Special?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2017-01-07T11:57:59-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2ebfac89e4423563aae11d0e95e24dae-209.html#unique-entry-id-209</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2ebfac89e4423563aae11d0e95e24dae-209.html#unique-entry-id-209</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_209.mp3" length="3604144" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Blue Light. Special?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>To summarize: The truth of blue light? Who cares?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_209.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 201: When should I get the influenza vaccine?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-10-15T18:18:46-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/de193f786cacea7a15946501fe3f36ca-208.html#unique-entry-id-208</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/de193f786cacea7a15946501fe3f36ca-208.html#unique-entry-id-208</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_208.mp3" length="5211933" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle> When should I get the influenza vaccine?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>What is the best month to get the flu jab.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_208.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 200: Infectious Diseases and Cancer</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-10-15T18:17:29-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c52d429a62faf4807239d68b9e57c5e2-207.html#unique-entry-id-207</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c52d429a62faf4807239d68b9e57c5e2-207.html#unique-entry-id-207</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_207.mp3" length="5394780" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Infectious Diseases and Cancer</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The many ways cancer and infection interact.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_207.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 199: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease Speculation</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-10-15T18:11:02-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/367875211fe98db9b94f52c067c0480e-206.html#unique-entry-id-206</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/367875211fe98db9b94f52c067c0480e-206.html#unique-entry-id-206</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_206.mp3" length="4630909" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease Speculation</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Is chronic fatigue a hibernation state?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_206.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 198. Leech Therapy.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-09-09T18:31:58-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ede556c9fbaa83ff1be0609a9fec9c6c-205.html#unique-entry-id-205</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ede556c9fbaa83ff1be0609a9fec9c6c-205.html#unique-entry-id-205</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_205.mp3" length="7251821" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Leech Therapy</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The middle ages lives on.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_205.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 197: Science-Based Politics</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-08-06T13:10:28-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5d3f176c496968dda47346f96eb986b5-204.html#unique-entry-id-204</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5d3f176c496968dda47346f96eb986b5-204.html#unique-entry-id-204</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_204.mp3" length="5613788" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Science-Based Politics</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A hodgepodge touching on a few aspects exploring issues and controversies in science&#x2c; medicine&#x2c; and politics.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_204.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 196: Acupuncture and Endorphins: Not all that Impressive</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-08-06T13:08:49-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4de9c4af70493ce25360a9a8a35c518c-203.html#unique-entry-id-203</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4de9c4af70493ce25360a9a8a35c518c-203.html#unique-entry-id-203</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_203.mp3" length="6488575" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture and Endorphins. Not all that Impressive</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Is the pain relief from acupuncture mediated by endorphins?  Only if you consider electrical shocks acupuncture.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_203.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 195: The New Chiropractic. And I thought SBM had an uphill battle.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-08-06T13:03:15-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4c44ac921817d65eeb73ed1928bcba05-202.html#unique-entry-id-202</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4c44ac921817d65eeb73ed1928bcba05-202.html#unique-entry-id-202</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_202.mp3" length="7234859" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The New Chiropractic. And I thought SBM had an uphill battle.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Is a chiropractor still a chiropractor when new and improved?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_202.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 194: About Herbs.  An app to avoid.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-06-26T17:04:23-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/70a1d273497507c7f10355997a812351-201.html#unique-entry-id-201</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/70a1d273497507c7f10355997a812351-201.html#unique-entry-id-201</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_201.mp3" length="7427509" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>About Herbs: an app to avoid</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Avoid this app.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_201.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 193: Chiropractic moves into Transportation</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-06-26T16:34:07-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/90cb15d1b2ed109e28ad0211b7996c49-198.html#unique-entry-id-198</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/90cb15d1b2ed109e28ad0211b7996c49-198.html#unique-entry-id-198</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_198.mp3" length="4457158" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chiropractic moves into Transportation</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The solution to chronic pain is NOT chiropractic</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_198.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 192: Dry Needling</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-06-26T16:12:49-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f8ff718decbec2d2b95c687e086a2dad-197.html#unique-entry-id-197</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f8ff718decbec2d2b95c687e086a2dad-197.html#unique-entry-id-197</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_197.mp3" length="5744920" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Dry Needling</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Dry Needling sure isn&#x27;t acupuncture. Nope. Not at all.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_197.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 191: Vaginal Seeding. Ew. That&#x2019;s nuts. Hmmm&#x2c; interesting.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-06-26T15:42:18-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/15a81b8885074226782d90e4eb447f7e-196.html#unique-entry-id-196</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/15a81b8885074226782d90e4eb447f7e-196.html#unique-entry-id-196</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_196.mp3" length="4822638" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Vaginal Seeding. Ew. That&#x2019;s nuts. Hmmm&#x2c; interesting.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Microbiome musings.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_196.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 190: Chiropractic&#x2c; Blind Pigs and Acorns</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-06-26T15:06:46-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6c874dc29e55b4fbe916006cc449de3a-195.html#unique-entry-id-195</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6c874dc29e55b4fbe916006cc449de3a-195.html#unique-entry-id-195</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_195.mp3" length="6194946" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chiropractic&#x2c; Blind Pigs and Acorns</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A review of chiropractic case report shows a profound lack of medical knowledge</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_195.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 188: April Fool Cannot Surpass SCAM</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-06-26T13:43:15-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4b430d91af024155f3eb4ff69d232f04-193.html#unique-entry-id-193</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4b430d91af024155f3eb4ff69d232f04-193.html#unique-entry-id-193</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_193.mp3" length="6878207" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>April Fool Cannot Surpass SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>April Fools jokes are always less wack-a-loon than any SCAM </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_193.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 187: Oregon Health &#x26; Science University SCAM Day</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-06-26T13:12:43-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d815dbee72adac820b256d04b4e7ed03-192.html#unique-entry-id-192</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d815dbee72adac820b256d04b4e7ed03-192.html#unique-entry-id-192</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_192.mp3" length="10475503" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Oregon Health &#x26; Science University SCAM Day</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Medical students hearing proselytizing propaganda by proponents of pseudo-medicine. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_192.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 186: Acupuncture for Coronary Artery Disease</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-06-26T12:24:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/eb9849415567b47dd2216d649d022eb2-191.html#unique-entry-id-191</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/eb9849415567b47dd2216d649d022eb2-191.html#unique-entry-id-191</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_191.mp3" length="7275026" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture for Coronary Artery Disease</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Nothing quite the hubris of using magic on potentially fatal diseases.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_191.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 185: Chiropractors&#x2c; Naturopaths&#x2c; Concussions and Senate Bill 1535</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-02-27T19:22:15-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/884f6dae98b87eb1ea1c992a4a8cde80-190.html#unique-entry-id-190</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/884f6dae98b87eb1ea1c992a4a8cde80-190.html#unique-entry-id-190</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_190.mp3" length="8081266" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chiropractors&#x2c; Naturopaths&#x2c; Concussions and Senate Bill 1535</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Naturopaths and chiropractors lack the education&#x2c; the training&#x2c; and the understanding of medicine and neurology to diagnose and treat concussion. Their therapies are at best useless and can result in strokes in one of our most vulnerable populations&#x2c; children.  Perfect for taking care of childhood concussion. Not.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_190.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 184: Curse Removal from the Annals</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-02-27T19:13:37-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/56e55d04bd0a79e5d1e600732c96f390-189.html#unique-entry-id-189</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/56e55d04bd0a79e5d1e600732c96f390-189.html#unique-entry-id-189</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_189.mp3" length="5383877" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Curse Removal from the Annals</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Most SCAM are the medical equal of a curse removal.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_189.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 183: Fog of Medicine</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-02-27T19:12:07-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/cea74149420968bd75bf884256758cea-188.html#unique-entry-id-188</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/cea74149420968bd75bf884256758cea-188.html#unique-entry-id-188</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_188.mp3" length="5633169" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Fog of Medicine</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Diagnostic error: a problem for medicine&#x2c; a defining characteristic of SCAM.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_188.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 182: Lyme Testing</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-02-27T19:05:12-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bbe9d52c97bc76d37d3ce3c32eb44b4f-187.html#unique-entry-id-187</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bbe9d52c97bc76d37d3ce3c32eb44b4f-187.html#unique-entry-id-187</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_187.mp3" length="7425302" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Lyme Testing</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Proving an infectious disease is not as easy as one would like.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_187.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 181: Influenza Eye Roll</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-02-27T19:03:38-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bea369bb6e0978b8a74134b46c43b822-186.html#unique-entry-id-186</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bea369bb6e0978b8a74134b46c43b822-186.html#unique-entry-id-186</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_186.mp3" length="8170402" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Influenza Eye Roll</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Yearly flu nonsense by some Family Practice residents.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_186.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 180: SCAM Cell Therapies</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2016-02-27T18:57:06-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d1159f4f9c1c61563497fbf71ce25a14-185.html#unique-entry-id-185</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d1159f4f9c1c61563497fbf71ce25a14-185.html#unique-entry-id-185</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_185.mp3" length="6710222" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Stem Cells that are not.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>SCAM Cells that are not.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_185.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 179: Acupuncture/TCPM Crapfest</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-11-21T14:16:51-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0a776f27c2dfdb4162ae8a6685f9711b-184.html#unique-entry-id-184</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0a776f27c2dfdb4162ae8a6685f9711b-184.html#unique-entry-id-184</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_184.mp3" length="18463511" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture/TCPM Crapfest</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Some more awful and unethical acupuncture studies.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_184.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 178: A liquid that was almost&#x2c; but not quite&#x2c; entirely unlike tea.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-11-21T14:13:28-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/07ac487268296bee82a5e9d43817203d-183.html#unique-entry-id-183</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/07ac487268296bee82a5e9d43817203d-183.html#unique-entry-id-183</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_183.mp3" length="5853373" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A liquid that was almost&#x2c; but not quite&#x2c; entirely unlike tea.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A look at some ND web sites.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_183.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 177: More Lyme &#x2018;Guidelines&#x2019;</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-11-21T14:04:43-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/eb7cc39c250abe7e3c8997a7f01b741a-182.html#unique-entry-id-182</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/eb7cc39c250abe7e3c8997a7f01b741a-182.html#unique-entry-id-182</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_182.mp3" length="6538836" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>More Lyme &#x2018;Guidelines&#x2019;</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Guidelines based on very poor qualtiy evidence.  We call that belief.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_182.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 176: Worst Homeopathy Study. Ever.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-09-26T15:22:44-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/49437048a06a5f5101b5e751a308ef87-181.html#unique-entry-id-181</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/49437048a06a5f5101b5e751a308ef87-181.html#unique-entry-id-181</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_181.mp3" length="6385474" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Really.  Worst homeopathy study ever.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Really.  Worst homeopathy study ever.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_181.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 175: Medicine in the Magic Kingdom of Cascadia</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-09-26T15:20:49-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/11ce60603b05f0020fd1bbb60d08d803-180.html#unique-entry-id-180</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/11ce60603b05f0020fd1bbb60d08d803-180.html#unique-entry-id-180</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_180.mp3" length="7593187" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Oregon Health &#x26; Sciences University inches towards becoming Oregon Health &#x26; Pseudo-Sciences University</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Oregon Health &#x26; Sciences University inches towards becoming Oregon Health &#x26; Pseudo-Sciences University</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_180.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 174: Medical Theater</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-09-26T15:19:05-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6e70c297b765e1f5f3cd7808b5c49871-179.html#unique-entry-id-179</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6e70c297b765e1f5f3cd7808b5c49871-179.html#unique-entry-id-179</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_179.mp3" length="6379403" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Medical Theater</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>It looks good but does nothing.&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_179.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 173: Do You Believe in Magic? Oregon Does.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-08-23T10:42:16-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/74b1fed90f55b15cee8f2c928526cdaa-178.html#unique-entry-id-178</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/74b1fed90f55b15cee8f2c928526cdaa-178.html#unique-entry-id-178</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_178.mp3" length="10217209" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>To decrease narcotic use&#x2c; Oregon is going to turn to magic.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>To decrease narcotic use&#x2c; Oregon is going to turn to magic.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_178.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 172: Naturopathic Medical Magic in the NW</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-08-23T10:36:50-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/576a004f9c63744e721ac3fa51f08d1f-177.html#unique-entry-id-177</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/576a004f9c63744e721ac3fa51f08d1f-177.html#unique-entry-id-177</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_177.mp3" length="9683063" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Oregon  legislature has declared that naturopaths are primary care providers.   Next up&#x2c; pi = 3.14.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The Oregon  legislature has declared that naturopaths are primary care providers.   Next up&#x2c; pi = 3.14.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_177.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 171: Ethical Failures</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-08-22T11:51:58-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/7cf84499d693b8240ed6d7cbcd3f4cba-176.html#unique-entry-id-176</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/7cf84499d693b8240ed6d7cbcd3f4cba-176.html#unique-entry-id-176</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_176.mp3" length="6482699" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Ethical Failures</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>IRBs keep approving unethical SCAM trials</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_176.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 170: Chiropractic and Stroke: The question is not answered</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-08-22T11:45:58-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/74b05194cfc43e8d1dbc70ee04963d19-175.html#unique-entry-id-175</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/74b05194cfc43e8d1dbc70ee04963d19-175.html#unique-entry-id-175</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_175.mp3" length="5450193" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chiropractic and Stroke: The question is not answered</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Chiropractic loves the studies that prove nothing about whether snapping a neck like a hanging causes a stroke.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_175.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 169: Leaky Gut</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-06-20T12:34:12-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3f956e8286d561864e85b7a821f3f60a-174.html#unique-entry-id-174</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3f956e8286d561864e85b7a821f3f60a-174.html#unique-entry-id-174</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_174.mp3" length="6554952" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Leaky Gut</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A culture-bound syndrome?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_174.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 168: Chiropractic Nose Balloons</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-06-04T18:38:28-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e3cad6f25a9d9f0622f3e4230bada1b5-173.html#unique-entry-id-173</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e3cad6f25a9d9f0622f3e4230bada1b5-173.html#unique-entry-id-173</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_173.mp3" length="5787072" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chiropractic Nose Balloons</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Hobbit condoms inflated in the nose.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_173.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 167: Lyme Testimony</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-06-02T19:41:25-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2610b1034bd82671f08ba710bd036973-172.html#unique-entry-id-172</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2610b1034bd82671f08ba710bd036973-172.html#unique-entry-id-172</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_172.mp3" length="8826257" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle> Lyme Testimony</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Testimony in favor of protecting &#x27;creative&#x27; lyme doctors.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_172.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 166: What Should We Do in the Absence of Evidence?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-05-30T13:22:45-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9c730677a9c5e055db134cd8c1e00996-171.html#unique-entry-id-171</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9c730677a9c5e055db134cd8c1e00996-171.html#unique-entry-id-171</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_171.mp3" length="7147991" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>What Should We Do in the Absence of Evidence?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>There is always evidence.  It just may stink on ice.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_171.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 165: Mediocre Expectations</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-05-02T20:37:32-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5f1c9d0a4eecb6bd7990f58785163d60-170.html#unique-entry-id-170</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5f1c9d0a4eecb6bd7990f58785163d60-170.html#unique-entry-id-170</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_170.mp3" length="5792026" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Mediocre Expectations</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>More on on acupuncture &#x27;works&#x27;.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_170.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 164. FDA and Homeopathy: Part Two.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-04-30T17:11:36-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/77ad2002dd4abed483ffb17d5fde51a2-169.html#unique-entry-id-169</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/77ad2002dd4abed483ffb17d5fde51a2-169.html#unique-entry-id-169</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_169.mp3" length="8805152" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>FDA and Homeopathy: Part Two.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Friends&#x2c; FDA&#x2c; countrymen&#x2c; lend me your ears;&#xa;&#xa;I come to bury Homeopathy&#x2c; not to praise it.&#xa;&#xa;The evil that homeopaths do lives after them;&#xa;&#xa;The good is oft interred with their bones;&#xa;&#xa;So let it be with Homeopathy. The noble Ullman&#xa;&#xa;Hath told you homeopathy was effective:&#xa;&#xa;If it were so&#x2c; it was a grievous fault&#x2c;&#xa;&#xa;And grievously hath Homeopathy answer&#x2019;d it.&#xa;&#xa;Here&#x2c; under leave of Ullman and the rest&#x2013;&#xa;&#xa;For Ullman is an honourable man;&#xa;&#xa;So are they all&#x2c; all honourable men&#x2013;&#xa;&#xa;Come I to speak in Homeopathy&#x2019;s funeral.&#xa;&#xa;It was my nostrum&#x2c; faithless and worthless to me:&#xa;&#xa;But Ullman says it was effective;&#xa;&#xa;And Ullman is an honourable man.&#xa;&#xa;He hath brought many provings home to HPUS&#xa;&#xa;Whose prescriptions did the general coffers fill:&#xa;&#xa;Did this in Homeopathy seem effective?&#xa;&#xa;When that the ill have died&#x2c; Homeopathy hath wept:&#xa;&#xa;Efficacy should be made of sterner stuff:&#xa;&#xa;Yet Ullman says it was effective;&#xa;&#xa;And Ullman is an honourable man.&#xa;&#xa;You all did see that on the Cochrane&#xa;&#xa;I thrice presented Homeopathy a meta-analysis&#x2c;&#xa;&#xa;Which he did thrice refuse: was this efficacy?&#xa;&#xa;Yet Ullman says it was effective;&#xa;&#xa;And&#x2c; sure&#x2c; he is an honourable man.&#xa;&#xa;I speak not to disprove what Ullman spoke&#x2c;&#xa;&#xa;But here I am to speak what I do know.&#xa;&#xa;Edward De Vere&#x2c; 17th Earl of Oxford. Sort of.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_169.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 163: Lyme: Two Worlds Compared and Contrasted</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-04-28T18:55:50-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/94a9b29d4e6e5029d4782a77ddf2274f-168.html#unique-entry-id-168</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/94a9b29d4e6e5029d4782a77ddf2274f-168.html#unique-entry-id-168</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_168.mp3" length="18300104" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Lyme: Two Worlds Compared and Contrasted</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Comparing the approach of the IDSA with ILADS.  Who will reign supreme?&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_168.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 162: Bias and Spin</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-04-25T12:33:27-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/58c2ce488c2e6cbcdc471d4a63953551-167.html#unique-entry-id-167</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/58c2ce488c2e6cbcdc471d4a63953551-167.html#unique-entry-id-167</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_167.mp3" length="6003468" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Bias and Spin</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Bias determines conclusions.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_167.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 161: Traditional Chinese Pseudo-Medicine Hodgepodge</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-04-23T21:28:31-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bf39c9b6262bfd69eb48842b0f91178d-166.html#unique-entry-id-166</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bf39c9b6262bfd69eb48842b0f91178d-166.html#unique-entry-id-166</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_166.mp3" length="14965917" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Traditional Chinese Pseudo-Medicine Hodgepodge</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A variety of studies reviewed.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_166.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 160: Do two half-truths add up to a complete truth or a complete falsehood?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-04-21T20:33:59-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/7f679d89071e2632ad16f16bb2f871d6-165.html#unique-entry-id-165</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/7f679d89071e2632ad16f16bb2f871d6-165.html#unique-entry-id-165</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_165.mp3" length="8920536" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Do two half-truths add up to a complete truth or a complete falsehood?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A bit on flu and measles.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_165.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 159: Gut Check</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-04-19T19:58:49-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1a80a94ef4813c3069913eba5f01364c-164.html#unique-entry-id-164</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1a80a94ef4813c3069913eba5f01364c-164.html#unique-entry-id-164</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_164.mp3" length="16572832" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Gut Check</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Update on probiotics.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_164.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 158: Mel asks and I do my best to answer.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-04-19T19:57:04-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/85361dd7bdf6589d42dbfc1f447b340b-163.html#unique-entry-id-163</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/85361dd7bdf6589d42dbfc1f447b340b-163.html#unique-entry-id-163</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_163.mp3" length="17089026" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Mel asks and I do my best to answer.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Responding to an acupuncturist.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_163.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 157: Acupuncture Odds and Ends</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2015-04-19T19:54:16-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/283495d0217b82c63f07b0ac6f3e1083-162.html#unique-entry-id-162</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/283495d0217b82c63f07b0ac6f3e1083-162.html#unique-entry-id-162</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_162.mp3" length="28159792" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture Odds and Ends</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A bunch of acupuncture studies.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_162.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 156: Homeotoxicology</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-12-13T19:18:28-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/92a0ad7c6a779c6af122a1cfe92e571b-161.html#unique-entry-id-161</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/92a0ad7c6a779c6af122a1cfe92e571b-161.html#unique-entry-id-161</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_161.mp3" length="12478835" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Homeotoxicology</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>An even weirder form of homeopathy.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_161.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 155: In the Spirit of Choosing Wisely</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-12-13T19:16:03-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1750b36301950d6ded159f6860f8b7f9-160.html#unique-entry-id-160</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1750b36301950d6ded159f6860f8b7f9-160.html#unique-entry-id-160</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_160.mp3" length="10549101" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>In the Spirit of Choosing Wisely</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>How to choose a SCAM wisely.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_160.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 154: Why Get A Flu Shot?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-12-13T19:14:30-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/10398de9188e642798252cd76f9dec33-159.html#unique-entry-id-159</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/10398de9188e642798252cd76f9dec33-159.html#unique-entry-id-159</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_159.mp3" length="11889398" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Why Get A Flu Shot?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A quick review of the benefits of the flu vaccine.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_159.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 153: Infinite Variety?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-12-13T19:11:57-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ba4ad36bebd3c40fc1d6827d0dba91a2-158.html#unique-entry-id-158</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ba4ad36bebd3c40fc1d6827d0dba91a2-158.html#unique-entry-id-158</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_158.mp3" length="11963245" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Infinite Variety?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>So many kinds of acupuncture.  Which one is the chosen one?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_158.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 152: Placebo Speculations</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-12-13T19:10:40-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/122d0eebcae746f64eadd28268265ed7-157.html#unique-entry-id-157</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/122d0eebcae746f64eadd28268265ed7-157.html#unique-entry-id-157</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_157.mp3" length="14610017" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Placebo Speculations</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>More on the nature of the placebo effect</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_157.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 151: Chaperones Needed</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-12-13T19:08:28-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3618e5a83cfcea8d09845e8d3c0e5f40-156.html#unique-entry-id-156</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3618e5a83cfcea8d09845e8d3c0e5f40-156.html#unique-entry-id-156</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_156.mp3" length="17651443" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chaperones Needed</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>You Docs and acupuncture: do they read the literature?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_156.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 150a: Rationalizing the Ridiculous</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-12-13T19:06:08-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1487449573ddbaf6283306e86ca55708-155.html#unique-entry-id-155</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1487449573ddbaf6283306e86ca55708-155.html#unique-entry-id-155</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_155.mp3" length="14192474" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Rationalizing the Ridiculous</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>How do people justify offering nonsense?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_155.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 150: Ebola SCAMs</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-09-06T14:57:55-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/402b2601ae59c94ff2c56250ec756198-154.html#unique-entry-id-154</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/402b2601ae59c94ff2c56250ec756198-154.html#unique-entry-id-154</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_154.mp3" length="20801160" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Ebola SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Variations of homeopathy to treat Ebola</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_154.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 149: That&#x27;s so Chiropractic</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-09-06T14:56:33-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/839c611f75ed96b94fa20a67ebbb02ca-153.html#unique-entry-id-153</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/839c611f75ed96b94fa20a67ebbb02ca-153.html#unique-entry-id-153</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_153.mp3" length="32700785" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>That&#x27;s so Chiropractic</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Chiropractic research and more.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_153.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 148: Yet another plague panic</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-09-06T14:55:02-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5d8a9e3e6e2f635e695daf99223b9e2f-152.html#unique-entry-id-152</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5d8a9e3e6e2f635e695daf99223b9e2f-152.html#unique-entry-id-152</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_152.mp3" length="15438527" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Yet another plague panic</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Ebola is the least of out worries.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_152.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 147: Why People Continue to Use SCAMs</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-08-03T11:52:35-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6c337eae9b9086c297a59d026ef0df9f-151.html#unique-entry-id-151</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6c337eae9b9086c297a59d026ef0df9f-151.html#unique-entry-id-151</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_151.mp3" length="10108869" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Why People Continue to Use SCAMs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Some research on why people are mislead by their experience.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_151.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 146: The Truth?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-08-03T11:47:34-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/441e3bb18df3d5f4d9c8bcb30fb92c19-150.html#unique-entry-id-150</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/441e3bb18df3d5f4d9c8bcb30fb92c19-150.html#unique-entry-id-150</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_150.mp3" length="5163395" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Truth?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Why do major medical insitutions lie to their patients?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_150.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 145: TCM Hodegepodge</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-08-03T11:46:37-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f9e3968dd6fa558c7b737f1c36e4fbde-149.html#unique-entry-id-149</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f9e3968dd6fa558c7b737f1c36e4fbde-149.html#unique-entry-id-149</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_149.mp3" length="9527344" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Traditional Chinese Medicine Hodgepodge</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Traditional Chinese Medicine Update.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_149.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 144: Astrology&#x2c; Alchemy&#x2c; ESP and Reiki. One Of These Is Not Like The Other</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-08-03T11:40:58-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1fb674875678f45d19e1724c01d168e8-148.html#unique-entry-id-148</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/1fb674875678f45d19e1724c01d168e8-148.html#unique-entry-id-148</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_148.mp3" length="9579471" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Astrology&#x2c; Alchemy&#x2c; ESP and Reiki. One Of These Is Not Like The Other</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Medicine embraces nonsense other fields avoid.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_148.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 143: More Dialogs</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-05-26T13:02:06-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8830a2975d0c1591a2aa01f539f53653-147.html#unique-entry-id-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8830a2975d0c1591a2aa01f539f53653-147.html#unique-entry-id-147</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_147.mp3" length="14290919" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>More Dialogs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The solution to US health care does not lie in adding magic.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_147.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 142: Cochrane Reviews: The Food Babe of Medicine?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-05-26T12:43:32-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/606baaa84d06cafa4ffcefbe53706f1c-146.html#unique-entry-id-146</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/606baaa84d06cafa4ffcefbe53706f1c-146.html#unique-entry-id-146</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_146.mp3" length="26962102" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Cochrane Reviews: The Food Babe of Medicine?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The Cochrane reviews: goofy and disingenuous.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_146.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 141: Moxibustion</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-04-20T12:33:12-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ac622bcd1dc744657c5bc91226efc384-145.html#unique-entry-id-145</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ac622bcd1dc744657c5bc91226efc384-145.html#unique-entry-id-145</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_145.mp3" length="7345975" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Moxibustion</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Burning mugwort does nothing but burn mugwort.</itunes:summary><itunes:image 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Directors Cut.&#x2a;</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-02-08T14:54:17-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d202166e9b34a2cf3d161e771bd8e89e-138.html#unique-entry-id-138</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d202166e9b34a2cf3d161e771bd8e89e-138.html#unique-entry-id-138</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_138.mp3" length="14175716" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Urinary Tract Infections Cause Depression. Directors Cut.&#x2a;</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Garbage in Garbage out his how you demonstrate acupuncture efficacy.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_138.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 132: Acupuncture Wack a Mole</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2014-02-08T14:46:48-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f0ac9b7d0077323e5415aa302c8f830f-136.html#unique-entry-id-136</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f0ac9b7d0077323e5415aa302c8f830f-136.html#unique-entry-id-136</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_136.mp3" length="12158182" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture wack a mole</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>More lousy acupuncture studies mis-interpreted. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_136.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 131: 5 out of 4 Americans do not understand statistics.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-12-22T13:39:58-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8c0a897841ef9f6a0bf60949cb257063-135.html#unique-entry-id-135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8c0a897841ef9f6a0bf60949cb257063-135.html#unique-entry-id-135</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_135.mp3" length="12759378" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>5 out 4 Americans do not understand statistics.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Statistics makes my head hurt&#x0;. p of 0.05 is not so significant after all.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_135.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 130: Irritated by the Skeptical Inquirer.  Again.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-12-22T13:38:23-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d17c9e25fd685d01f53d02ffdb11694c-134.html#unique-entry-id-134</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d17c9e25fd685d01f53d02ffdb11694c-134.html#unique-entry-id-134</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_134.mp3" length="21157102" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle> Irritated by the Skeptical Inquirer.  Again.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A Mike Adams impersonator writes for SI</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_134.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 129: Alternative Microbiology</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-12-22T13:36:04-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5aece07aba9a0bc9e57b1215be69d1f8-133.html#unique-entry-id-133</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5aece07aba9a0bc9e57b1215be69d1f8-133.html#unique-entry-id-133</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_133.mp3" length="13996584" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Alternative Microbiology</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Weirdness in the world of infectious diseases and microbiology.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_133.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 128: SCAM Stud</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-10-26T13:14:42-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fab28928b6afdc19741e661ddc1566ff-132.html#unique-entry-id-132</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fab28928b6afdc19741e661ddc1566ff-132.html#unique-entry-id-132</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_132.mp3" length="15723950" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>SCAM Stud</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Where we see that Food Babe writes about the flu vaccine and gets it completely wrong.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_132.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 127: Pump it up.  Osteopathic manipulation and influenza</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-10-26T13:12:07-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6bf8f9e9c47c6af458c9d5176dac286e-131.html#unique-entry-id-131</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6bf8f9e9c47c6af458c9d5176dac286e-131.html#unique-entry-id-131</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_131.mp3" length="14976500" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Pump it up.  Osteopathic manipulation and influenza</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Adding a worthless therapy to the treatment of influenza on based on historical nonsense.&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_131.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 126: What are words for?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-10-26T13:10:15-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/38ffcebbe1fa92f1d67b839a3cc823d7-130.html#unique-entry-id-130</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/38ffcebbe1fa92f1d67b839a3cc823d7-130.html#unique-entry-id-130</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_130.mp3" length="17178256" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>What are words for?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Words can be used to mislead about vaccines&#x2c; as we see</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_130.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 125: I refute it thus</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-09-15T17:08:24-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/35dbee27ee2d5ac5966e347109a1a1e7-129.html#unique-entry-id-129</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/35dbee27ee2d5ac5966e347109a1a1e7-129.html#unique-entry-id-129</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_129.mp3" length="11760165" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>I refute it this</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Reality is a honey badger.  It don&#x2019;t care if you don&#x2019;t get vaccinated.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_129.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast124: Survey Says...</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-09-15T17:07:25-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2e006cda4b1567e0a437f788f3b4c6a6-128.html#unique-entry-id-128</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2e006cda4b1567e0a437f788f3b4c6a6-128.html#unique-entry-id-128</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_128.mp3" length="13564090" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Survey Says...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Even the best and brightest can buy into SCAMs.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_128.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 123: A Different Perspective: Placebo&#x2c; SCAM&#x2c; and Advertising</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-09-15T17:02:16-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2a37ca25847908dc9991a0d51de9d3ae-127.html#unique-entry-id-127</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2a37ca25847908dc9991a0d51de9d3ae-127.html#unique-entry-id-127</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_127.mp3" length="7945400" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>A Different Perspective: Placebo&#x2c; SCAM&#x2c; and Advertising</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>SCAM as selling sugar water.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_127.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 122: Religion and SCAM</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-08-03T20:22:51-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d15d8621e128910285efec554cdcf9c0-126.html#unique-entry-id-126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d15d8621e128910285efec554cdcf9c0-126.html#unique-entry-id-126</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_126.mp3" length="15513816" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Religion and SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>On the intersection of religion and SCAM.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_126.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 121: Who you gonna believe&#x2c; me or you own eyes?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-08-03T20:20:58-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6a6906ad99cdde52a28c05fb4c44f18c-125.html#unique-entry-id-125</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6a6906ad99cdde52a28c05fb4c44f18c-125.html#unique-entry-id-125</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_125.mp3" length="14233490" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Who you gonna believe&#x2c; me or you own eyes?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>On why people are wired to believe SCAM.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_125.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 120: Homeopathy Ramblings</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-08-03T20:18:43-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/91cc08d5b6475081f9aa88b86bbb6da4-124.html#unique-entry-id-124</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/91cc08d5b6475081f9aa88b86bbb6da4-124.html#unique-entry-id-124</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_124.mp3" length="7945400" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Homeopathy Ramblings</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The impossible homeopathic adverse reaction.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_124.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quactcast 119: Two Viewpoints</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-08-03T20:16:02-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2f8a1b46d9c2af732f806b2aae0967e4-123.html#unique-entry-id-123</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2f8a1b46d9c2af732f806b2aae0967e4-123.html#unique-entry-id-123</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_123.mp3" length="11581864" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Two Viewpoints</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The Ethics of SCAM vrs Reality Based Medicine&#x0;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_123.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 118: People Encouraging Turtle Agony</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-06-09T11:57:27-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fbcfd229649b18ea99dd4e29a064aa15-122.html#unique-entry-id-122</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fbcfd229649b18ea99dd4e29a064aa15-122.html#unique-entry-id-122</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_122.mp3" length="14969072" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>People Encouraging Turtle Agony</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Yertle had a bad day and it only got worse.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_122.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 117: Whack em hard&#x2c; whack em once and Stroke</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-06-09T11:52:07-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c69ec8cd6a14ae5f53f41424f5dd4c2a-121.html#unique-entry-id-121</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c69ec8cd6a14ae5f53f41424f5dd4c2a-121.html#unique-entry-id-121</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_121.mp3" length="12516625" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>More on chiropractic and stroke.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>More on chiropractic and stroke</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_121.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 116: Animal Therapy</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-06-08T13:39:16-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f8727a95e352c620fcc77f77c633eebf-120.html#unique-entry-id-120</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f8727a95e352c620fcc77f77c633eebf-120.html#unique-entry-id-120</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_120.mp3" length="10411310" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Animal Therapy</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Animals in the hospital: stupid idea?  Or really stupid.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_120.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 115: Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Flu</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-06-08T13:33:19-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6012a28ae8d26e29ccca802f096e966b-119.html#unique-entry-id-119</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6012a28ae8d26e29ccca802f096e966b-119.html#unique-entry-id-119</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_119.mp3" length="10132575" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Flu</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>More flu stuff.  It is coming to kill you.  Eventually.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_119.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 114: Boundaries</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-05-11T17:10:36-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ce7622a1353985a2edc5a7f6bdbe9615-118.html#unique-entry-id-118</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ce7622a1353985a2edc5a7f6bdbe9615-118.html#unique-entry-id-118</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_118.mp3" length="11767007" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Boundaries</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Differences between SBM and SCAM</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_118.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 113: Comprehending the Incomprehensible</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-05-11T17:10:15-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/797afdc417e81b0145ab44347900f7e6-117.html#unique-entry-id-117</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/797afdc417e81b0145ab44347900f7e6-117.html#unique-entry-id-117</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_117.mp3" length="8969744" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Comprehending the Incomprehensible</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Looking for Conceptual Frameworks</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_117.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 112: Acupuncture and Allergic Rhinitis</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-03-09T15:46:45-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/79bce7e3202ed16d930a0d4e7b55b918-116.html#unique-entry-id-116</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/79bce7e3202ed16d930a0d4e7b55b918-116.html#unique-entry-id-116</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_116.mp3" length="29562254" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture and Allergic Rhinitis</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Acupuncture and allergic rhinitis.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_116.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 111: Warts</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-03-09T15:44:43-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6572f2bbcddd4b5af205aaaa050be37b-115.html#unique-entry-id-115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6572f2bbcddd4b5af205aaaa050be37b-115.html#unique-entry-id-115</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_115.mp3" length="11299106" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Warts</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Warts treated with duct tape?  Nope.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_115.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 110: Honey Boo Boo</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-03-09T15:43:40-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/82c042840afc34a6e5f68067a422e49a-114.html#unique-entry-id-114</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/82c042840afc34a6e5f68067a422e49a-114.html#unique-entry-id-114</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_114.mp3" length="15917195" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Honey Boo Boo</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Honey does not help cough.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_114.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 109: One Flu Into the Cuckoo&#x2019;s Nest</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-03-09T15:40:26-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ec0d2ebf2f65cd97fae470b1e178249f-113.html#unique-entry-id-113</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ec0d2ebf2f65cd97fae470b1e178249f-113.html#unique-entry-id-113</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_113.mp3" length="51034658" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>One Flu Into the Cuckoo&#x2019;s Nest</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>More on the flu vaccine&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_113.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 108: SCAMlandia</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-01-27T14:15:53-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a3b9600c4424efd704bec1e39431da01-111.html#unique-entry-id-111</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a3b9600c4424efd704bec1e39431da01-111.html#unique-entry-id-111</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_111.mp3" length="29834093" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>SCAMlandia</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>An evaluation of Portland Monthly&#x2019;s Alternative Medicine Guide.   Journalistic standards are not what they used to be.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_111.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 107: 780.6.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2013-01-26T12:38:10-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f1b5af2c4a593f386c87404f3832f3af-110.html#unique-entry-id-110</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f1b5af2c4a593f386c87404f3832f3af-110.html#unique-entry-id-110</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_110.mp3" length="23027591" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>780.6</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Fever.  Along with pus&#x2c; it defines my life.  Lucky me.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_110.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 106: Disingenuous: Deconstruction of a naturopathic white paper</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-12-22T16:11:05-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f29a6eb71ab416cd3e52ca70d81adb23-109.html#unique-entry-id-109</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f29a6eb71ab416cd3e52ca70d81adb23-109.html#unique-entry-id-109</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_109.mp3" length="28946539" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Disingenuous: Deconstruction of a naturopathic white paper</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Why naturopaths should not be primary care providers&#x2c; no matter what they say.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_109.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 105: Down the Virtual Rabbit Hole</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-12-22T16:09:49-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6277ce27f511ded26b47bb704d95195a-108.html#unique-entry-id-108</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6277ce27f511ded26b47bb704d95195a-108.html#unique-entry-id-108</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_108.mp3" length="12756522" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Down the Virtual Rabbit Hole</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Alkaline water and a new parasite.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_108.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 104. Blonde Blood.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-12-22T16:08:13-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2f551e6c765cb196fe3138f521a66288-107.html#unique-entry-id-107</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2f551e6c765cb196fe3138f521a66288-107.html#unique-entry-id-107</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_107.mp3" length="11649500" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Blond Blood</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>H2O2 in vein is in vain.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_107.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 103. The Light Fantastical</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-11-10T15:06:59-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/406177dcafc430136b6f955d25c99e58-106.html#unique-entry-id-106</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/406177dcafc430136b6f955d25c99e58-106.html#unique-entry-id-106</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_106.mp3" length="12706179" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Light Fantastical</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>UV irradiation of blood.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_106.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 102. More boosting.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-11-10T15:03:58-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/45a9107e4f173a27b3c61b659143809c-105.html#unique-entry-id-105</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/45a9107e4f173a27b3c61b659143809c-105.html#unique-entry-id-105</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_105.mp3" length="12472208" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>More Boosting</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Can&#x27;t boost the immune system. It is a nonsensical idea.&#x0;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_105.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 101.  I never meta analysis I like.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-10-14T19:07:05-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ba7b54adb5ffda3ed64bb16894666ffd-104.html#unique-entry-id-104</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ba7b54adb5ffda3ed64bb16894666ffd-104.html#unique-entry-id-104</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_104.mp3" length="18733907" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle> I never meta analysis I like.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>More studies that&#x2c; upon careful evaluation&#x2c; fail to show acupuncture is effective.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_104.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 100. Protect Yourself.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-10-14T19:05:02-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fc5585bfd4890ffd2a513ff36acc5644-103.html#unique-entry-id-103</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fc5585bfd4890ffd2a513ff36acc5644-103.html#unique-entry-id-103</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_103.mp3" length="18018128" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Protect Yourself</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>If your health care provider is not vaccinated against influenza&#x2c; they might be a dumb ass.  You want  dumb ass involved in your health care?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_103.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 99. Guiding Lights</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-09-23T10:04:21-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/23a2a3a250ac4c298f0184f9ac081cb2-102.html#unique-entry-id-102</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/23a2a3a250ac4c298f0184f9ac081cb2-102.html#unique-entry-id-102</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_102.mp3" length="10237139" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Guiding Lights</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>My Biases</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_102.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 98. Low Level Lasers.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-09-23T10:02:45-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5b6fbd4859a2b1628939ed03f73c8f05-101.html#unique-entry-id-101</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5b6fbd4859a2b1628939ed03f73c8f05-101.html#unique-entry-id-101</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_101.mp3" length="12281055" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Low Level Lazers</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>N-Rays Redux. Needed: 1 shark.&#x0;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_101.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 97. Jurassic Farce</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-08-12T09:29:16-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/56d5b8ac4b47676a68770b5354ef4a86-99.html#unique-entry-id-99</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/56d5b8ac4b47676a68770b5354ef4a86-99.html#unique-entry-id-99</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_99.mp3" length="8989474" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Jurassic Farce</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Worrying about gay gm mosquitoes&#x0;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_99.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 96. Journal Club</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-08-12T09:29:15-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/70bf9b4f651497d8e80ca019a5f2b3f7-98.html#unique-entry-id-98</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/70bf9b4f651497d8e80ca019a5f2b3f7-98.html#unique-entry-id-98</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_98.mp3" length="13682071" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Journal Club</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Bad research leads to worthless studies.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_98.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 95. The Spirit of Louis Renault</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-08-12T09:29:15-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/cdbbc3f382f2f8c06d424f8808c40768-97.html#unique-entry-id-97</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/cdbbc3f382f2f8c06d424f8808c40768-97.html#unique-entry-id-97</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_97.mp3" length="9198008" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Spirit of Louis Renault</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The Huff Po finds gambling is going on. Is shocked.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_97.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 94. Vital Signs</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-08-12T09:29:13-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6cb5bbaaefa9ac59d70dde5ce4f8cf42-96.html#unique-entry-id-96</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6cb5bbaaefa9ac59d70dde5ce4f8cf42-96.html#unique-entry-id-96</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_96.mp3" length="15451526" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Vital Signs</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>On Breathing as the cause of all disease.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_96.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 93. Science&#x2c; Evidence and Guidelines</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-06-23T13:47:41-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e078ee5a214c3bdd227e8d28e1319938-95.html#unique-entry-id-95</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e078ee5a214c3bdd227e8d28e1319938-95.html#unique-entry-id-95</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_95.mp3" length="12870589" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Science&#x2c; Evidence&#x2c; and Guidelines</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Most docs don&#x27;t like evidence and science. Beware.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_95.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 92. There&#x27;s an app for that?&#x21;?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-06-23T13:43:40-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6f467e382baa9d0bf34bfab32c7ffd96-94.html#unique-entry-id-94</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6f467e382baa9d0bf34bfab32c7ffd96-94.html#unique-entry-id-94</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_94.mp3" length="8133472" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>There&#x27;s an app for that ?&#x21;?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Using modern technology to classify fiction.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_94.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 91. Cannibalism?</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-05-19T19:18:41-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/456c618cd54760f58b3de4d8a7a21927-93.html#unique-entry-id-93</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/456c618cd54760f58b3de4d8a7a21927-93.html#unique-entry-id-93</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_93.mp3" length="8636837" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Cannibalism?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Do the Chinese and Koreans eat dead babies?  I bet no.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_93.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 90. Stop Making Sense</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-05-19T19:17:27-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a5de76e5d84a99d7e77f24e3d948cbdf-92.html#unique-entry-id-92</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a5de76e5d84a99d7e77f24e3d948cbdf-92.html#unique-entry-id-92</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_92.mp3" length="6697199" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Stop Making Sense</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Random thoughts after reading 13 Things That Don&#x2019;t Make Sense by Michael Brooks.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_92.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 89: Spring Update</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-04-22T11:46:25-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b2ed9c369340ae7fe92d533f87f776cb-91.html#unique-entry-id-91</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b2ed9c369340ae7fe92d533f87f776cb-91.html#unique-entry-id-91</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_91.mp3" length="14022560" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Spring Update</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Update on raw milk&#x2c; acupuncture&#x2c; homeopathy and TCM.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_91.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 88: Drinking from the Fire Hose</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-04-21T13:21:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2a2799c44b374a456f2163b95007f379-90.html#unique-entry-id-90</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2a2799c44b374a456f2163b95007f379-90.html#unique-entry-id-90</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_90.mp3" length="19150724" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Drinking from the Fire Hose</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Odds and Ends on the Gasping Oppression aka the flu.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_90.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 87: Feet of Clay</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-04-20T10:39:14-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/380852d170e9a93dcbe78acc925a9f1f-89.html#unique-entry-id-89</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/380852d170e9a93dcbe78acc925a9f1f-89.html#unique-entry-id-89</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_89.mp3" length="5857590" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Feet of Clay</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The NEJM editors apparently do not bother to read their own content&#x2c; much to my disappointment.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_89.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 86: The Species in the Feces.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-03-27T08:29:44-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2093118ab0d814f6ab55024ff6bf7aa5-88.html#unique-entry-id-88</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2093118ab0d814f6ab55024ff6bf7aa5-88.html#unique-entry-id-88</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_88.mp3" length="15522365" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Species in the Feces.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Stool transplants. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_88.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 85: On the Application of Science.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-03-26T08:19:08-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a8371c16382877823868f88ba2517373-87.html#unique-entry-id-87</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a8371c16382877823868f88ba2517373-87.html#unique-entry-id-87</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_87.mp3" length="9084640" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>On the Appication of Science</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>It is harder than it appears to change practice based on the published literature.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_87.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 84: Perpetual Motion. The Bravewell Report</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-03-25T08:24:15-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/da56ac7d4d6ad668638dfc1a63c0a3dd-86.html#unique-entry-id-86</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/da56ac7d4d6ad668638dfc1a63c0a3dd-86.html#unique-entry-id-86</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_86.mp3" length="14232274" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Perpetual Motion. The Bravewell Report</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>When major medical institutions offer magic.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_86.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 83. AK: Nonsense on Full Automatic.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-02-11T17:23:21-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/edfd437e1b80d333d7c1650942fb431a-85.html#unique-entry-id-85</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/edfd437e1b80d333d7c1650942fb431a-85.html#unique-entry-id-85</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_85.mp3" length="19923713" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>AK: Nonsense on Full Automatic.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>In the race to be the goofiest SCAM&#x2c; can Applied Kinesiology win?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_85.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 82. More Placebo.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-02-11T17:19:27-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d29887545bc15b64889f5025fb84df1c-84.html#unique-entry-id-84</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d29887545bc15b64889f5025fb84df1c-84.html#unique-entry-id-84</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_84.mp3" length="18429346" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>More Placebo</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>I keep yammering on about the worthless placebo.  Oh well&#x2c;  It&#x2019;s my podcast.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_84.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 81. Alas poor Craniosacral. A SCAM of infinite jest&#x2c; of most excellent fancy.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2012-01-21T12:55:25-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0b58635cdd65edb208f45b87ac9062b2-83.html#unique-entry-id-83</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0b58635cdd65edb208f45b87ac9062b2-83.html#unique-entry-id-83</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_83.mp3" length="17586241" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Alas poor Craniosacral. A SCAM of infinite jest&#x2c; of most excellent fancy.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A race to the bottom of silliness.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_83.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 80. Seal of Approval.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-12-10T16:38:44-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/33298cb399ce2b2f912d86f178aef02f-82.html#unique-entry-id-82</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/33298cb399ce2b2f912d86f178aef02f-82.html#unique-entry-id-82</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_82.mp3" length="14646471" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Seal of Approval</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Dr. Oz approved. Insert snort of derision.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_82.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 79. Hodgepodge.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-12-10T16:34:05-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f84e731511023a761aaf84b01498150c-81.html#unique-entry-id-81</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f84e731511023a761aaf84b01498150c-81.html#unique-entry-id-81</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_81.mp3" length="16131743" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Hodgepodge</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A bit of medicine&#x2c; a bit of acupuncture&#x2c; a bit of staring.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_81.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 78. Random Flu Thoughts.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-11-12T15:30:34-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8cd009da712886526c6941521aa548db-80.html#unique-entry-id-80</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8cd009da712886526c6941521aa548db-80.html#unique-entry-id-80</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_80.mp3" length="9954245" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Random flu thoughts.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Interferon induced idle thoughts about influenza</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_80.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 77. Alternative Vaccination.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-11-12T15:28:38-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c872fb8d22e14a56eebab3d1bd5791b4-79.html#unique-entry-id-79</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c872fb8d22e14a56eebab3d1bd5791b4-79.html#unique-entry-id-79</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_79.mp3" length="10058558" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Alternative Vaccination</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>DYI vaccination schedule.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_79.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 76. The Prostrate Placebo.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-10-09T19:45:50-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f58341e28452e4f3744d05db39c10b99-78.html#unique-entry-id-78</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f58341e28452e4f3744d05db39c10b99-78.html#unique-entry-id-78</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_78.mp3" length="9973222" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Prostrate Placebo</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Saw palmetto doesn&#x27;t  work. Neither does placebo.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_78.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 75. Recycle.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-10-09T19:44:27-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fa51f8a1729755a07c42db6984a375e3-77.html#unique-entry-id-77</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/fa51f8a1729755a07c42db6984a375e3-77.html#unique-entry-id-77</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_77.mp3" length="8488632" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Recycling</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Drinking Urine. Ick.  </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_77.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 74. Gullible George.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-09-13T19:56:30-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/254b8e2e6f7ffcc5305515685e94cc6d-76.html#unique-entry-id-76</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/254b8e2e6f7ffcc5305515685e94cc6d-76.html#unique-entry-id-76</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_76.mp3" length="11923661" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Gullible George</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>When it comes to CAM&#x2c; PBS means Produces Bull Stuff (I do not want to get an explicit tag).</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_76.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 73. The Annals of Internal Medicine Qualifies for Fail Blog.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-09-13T19:54:32-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/eefb347db8cfc7e18d63aaa0d6d2b89e-75.html#unique-entry-id-75</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/eefb347db8cfc7e18d63aaa0d6d2b89e-75.html#unique-entry-id-75</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_75.mp3" length="14081657" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Annals of Internal Medicine Qualifies for Fail Blog.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Watch as a formally good Journal publishes amateur garbage on TCM and the &#x2018;treatment&#x2019; of flu.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_75.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 72. Train Therapy.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-09-13T19:52:55-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a9317a34475acfff16e035f451847239-74.html#unique-entry-id-74</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a9317a34475acfff16e035f451847239-74.html#unique-entry-id-74</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_74.mp3" length="5112490" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Train Therapy</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Lying on train tracks to improve your health. No worse than homeopathy.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_74.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 71. CAM. The Beer Goggles of Medicine.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-09-13T19:49:25-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/dadf9210a475ebabc7d86863106f7634-73.html#unique-entry-id-73</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/dadf9210a475ebabc7d86863106f7634-73.html#unique-entry-id-73</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_73.mp3" length="7673544" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>CAM. The Beer Goggles of Medicine.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>More on how CAM = Placebo. Placebo = Nothing. Therefore CAM = Nothing.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_73.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 70. SOS DD.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-07-24T17:27:15-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d4988815bcd2d752a6cadbeb54a05eb0-72.html#unique-entry-id-72</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d4988815bcd2d752a6cadbeb54a05eb0-72.html#unique-entry-id-72</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_72.mp3" length="16808315" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>SOS DD</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>SCAM proponents have a different understanding of reality.  See Dr. Chopra&#x27;s writings as the archetype.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_72.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 69. Honey.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-07-24T17:23:03-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/05a02adba666f7ceb5efc0d0ed08e20b-71.html#unique-entry-id-71</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/05a02adba666f7ceb5efc0d0ed08e20b-71.html#unique-entry-id-71</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_71.mp3" length="5401460" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Honey</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Not the bee all and end all&#x2c; nhoney has its uses in wound care.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_71.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 68. The Dow of Accutane.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-06-17T20:38:30-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a25100e3cf55a08178952313ca136880-69.html#unique-entry-id-69</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a25100e3cf55a08178952313ca136880-69.html#unique-entry-id-69</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_69.mp3" length="6102544" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Dow of Accutane</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Does Accutane lead to inflammatory bowel disease? Probably not. But it may be worth millions.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_69.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 67. Ambiguity.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-06-17T20:36:51-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/10296aa0e68e6ca30506cd27d77cbb81-68.html#unique-entry-id-68</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/10296aa0e68e6ca30506cd27d77cbb81-68.html#unique-entry-id-68</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_68.mp3" length="8924529" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Ambiguity</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Medicine evolves. SCAMs mutate.  The difference is science.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_68.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 65. Raw Milk.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-05-28T15:16:41-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/48fd4fe848267060c17804c9ea60ac33-67.html#unique-entry-id-67</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/48fd4fe848267060c17804c9ea60ac33-67.html#unique-entry-id-67</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_67.mp3" length="6319513" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Raw Milk</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Raw Milk.  Good for the bottom line of ID docs everywhere.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_67.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 64. Parasites.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-05-07T16:52:41-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9401503258a5749351db0d94f02e4d73-66.html#unique-entry-id-66</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9401503258a5749351db0d94f02e4d73-66.html#unique-entry-id-66</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_66.mp3" length="12460344" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Parasites</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Parasites and their so called diagnosis.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_66.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 63. Without Borders.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-04-26T10:23:05-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4599f3554e6c3d82f4be84a1783f62b1-65.html#unique-entry-id-65</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4599f3554e6c3d82f4be84a1783f62b1-65.html#unique-entry-id-65</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_65.mp3" length="8276729" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Without Borders</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Exporting woo to your tired&#x2c; your poor&#x2c; your huddled masses.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_65.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 62. The World Has Moved On.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-04-10T20:23:22-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e87b122915ffa338ea98a75d436d1cdb-64.html#unique-entry-id-64</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/e87b122915ffa338ea98a75d436d1cdb-64.html#unique-entry-id-64</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_64.jpg" length="21780" type="image/jpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The World has Moved On</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Idle thoughts about HuffPo medical nonsense.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_64.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 61. Deadly Indeed.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-03-13T18:03:22-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b6c512f1e1a3773b73aa0f8af522f777-63.html#unique-entry-id-63</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b6c512f1e1a3773b73aa0f8af522f777-63.html#unique-entry-id-63</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_63.mp3" length="19191512" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Deadly Indeed</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Thoughts on the recent Skeptical Enquirer article&#x2c; Seven Deadly Medical Hypotheses.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_63.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 60. Triskaidekaphobia times two.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-03-13T17:56:38-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bf5c7499f65731af83ad4179a0395c0b-62.html#unique-entry-id-62</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/bf5c7499f65731af83ad4179a0395c0b-62.html#unique-entry-id-62</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_62.mp3" length="6576847" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Triskaidekaphobia times two.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A reflection on the capacity of the immune system.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_62.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 59. Vaccination Council on Vaccination Reviewed</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-02-13T14:12:22-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8c03aa2fa42a8c8585cc320e26d60a3f-61.html#unique-entry-id-61</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8c03aa2fa42a8c8585cc320e26d60a3f-61.html#unique-entry-id-61</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_61.mp3" length="15115667" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Vaccination Council on Vaccination Reviewed</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The Vaccine Council of Vaccinations doesn&#x27;t want you and yours to get vaccinated.  The data?  Pulled out of their&#x2c; er&#x2c; well&#x2c; lets call it thin air. Yeah. Thin Air.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_61.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 58. Cranberry Juice and UTI&#x27;s.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2011-01-23T16:06:31-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2533758ba1f1c89a868c5fc463d401c5-60.html#unique-entry-id-60</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2533758ba1f1c89a868c5fc463d401c5-60.html#unique-entry-id-60</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_60.mp3" length="7993607" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Cranberry Juice and UTI&#x27;s.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>After 45 years of investigation and 100 crappy studies you still can&#x27;t say definitively that Cranberry Juice is effective.  Although it probably isn&#x27;t. But I still like my cosmo.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_60.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 57. Oh So Silly Oh coccinum and whiny babies</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-12-26T16:28:15-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/abcc60db69ae578e0cc6c7e56f1aaee2-59.html#unique-entry-id-59</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/abcc60db69ae578e0cc6c7e56f1aaee2-59.html#unique-entry-id-59</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_59.mp3" length="18326396" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Oh So Silly Oh coccinum and whiny babies</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Some odds and ends about influenza treatment and prevention.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_59.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 56. Sky Maul. A meandering look at aspects of acupuncuture by the easily distracted.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-12-12T08:41:32-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/99b2a1ed5f29362afe2238cf278cb417-58.html#unique-entry-id-58</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/99b2a1ed5f29362afe2238cf278cb417-58.html#unique-entry-id-58</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_58.mp3" length="13749373" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Sky Maul. A meandering look at aspects of acupuncuture by the easily distracted.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Why did the iceman die 5500 years ago?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_58.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 55. Homeopathetic Vaccines</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-11-26T16:33:44-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f636a21ff3bf06dcd988c57fe98a60d7-56.html#unique-entry-id-56</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f636a21ff3bf06dcd988c57fe98a60d7-56.html#unique-entry-id-56</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_56.mp3" length="17596029" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Homeopathic Vaccines</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A review of the airquotes science end airquotes behind the homeopathetic vaccines/nosodes.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_56.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 53. Reflexology.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-09-27T21:11:41-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9dbe1b2a41f89d4173d41b1f8bb17f75-55.html#unique-entry-id-55</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9dbe1b2a41f89d4173d41b1f8bb17f75-55.html#unique-entry-id-55</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_55.mp3" length="7427123" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Reflexology</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Reflexology</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_55.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 52. Good Journals Gone Bad.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-09-27T21:10:49-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/45414772f3291e5bffc2e8f231007df1-54.html#unique-entry-id-54</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/45414772f3291e5bffc2e8f231007df1-54.html#unique-entry-id-54</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_54.mp3" length="13759307" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Good Journals Gone Bad.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Why do good journals do this?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_54.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 51.  Short Attendion Span Quackcast</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-09-27T21:09:58-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/30a53d118d5014946e113882ca1e323b-53.html#unique-entry-id-53</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/30a53d118d5014946e113882ca1e323b-53.html#unique-entry-id-53</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_53.mp3" length="9443819" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Short Attendion Span Quackcast</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A Hodegepodge.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_53.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 50. The NEJM and Acupuncture</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-09-27T21:08:37-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/20debe28cd1aee8262743976d53059cf-52.html#unique-entry-id-52</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/20debe28cd1aee8262743976d53059cf-52.html#unique-entry-id-52</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_52.mp3" length="13773919" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The NEJM and Acupuncture. </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Even the best journal can publish garbage.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_52.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 49.  Bought and Sold.  Who Pays for CME</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-07-24T16:07:31-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0e8d427ba5fe2a9c0f78a5a4782b2342-51.html#unique-entry-id-51</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/0e8d427ba5fe2a9c0f78a5a4782b2342-51.html#unique-entry-id-51</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_51.mp3" length="10018687" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Bought and Sold. Who pays for CME</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Whoring for fun and profit.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_51.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 48. Acupuncture and CME</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-07-24T16:05:23-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c08246a1ae63b03b5903785bb9dbb806-50.html#unique-entry-id-50</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c08246a1ae63b03b5903785bb9dbb806-50.html#unique-entry-id-50</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_50.mp3" length="6585874" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture and CME</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The best and brightest nonsense.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_50.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 47.  More on Medical Voices.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-06-29T19:25:22-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6354d3318cf77dc97a281832fec7feac-49.html#unique-entry-id-49</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6354d3318cf77dc97a281832fec7feac-49.html#unique-entry-id-49</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_49.mp3" length="12082846" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>More on (two words not one) Medical Voices</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Medical Voices website has a variety of what could be considered misinformation.  I look at the core fallacy&#x2c; or nut&#x2c; behind 20 essays on the site.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_49.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 46. Mumps.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-06-21T19:55:47-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2502d1c86defb13be920b79a2e31f9fc-48.html#unique-entry-id-48</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2502d1c86defb13be920b79a2e31f9fc-48.html#unique-entry-id-48</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_48.mp3" length="9027940" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Mumps</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Should you get vaccinated or get the real disease?  I suggest the former&#x2c; Medical Voices suggests the latter. See why.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_48.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 45. The Vaccine Pseudo Controversy</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-06-06T18:46:16-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6b8a405ee529fc4ab2b90c0fe7a39704-46.html#unique-entry-id-46</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6b8a405ee529fc4ab2b90c0fe7a39704-46.html#unique-entry-id-46</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_46.mp3" length="21187477" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Vaccine Pseudo-controversy</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A review of the the alleged side effects of the third greatest invention of all time.  After clean water and the flush toilet.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_46.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 44. Nine questions&#x2c; nine answers.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-05-10T19:42:34-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d105e5fbdda0fb5e8e915b32afa6fb56-45.html#unique-entry-id-45</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d105e5fbdda0fb5e8e915b32afa6fb56-45.html#unique-entry-id-45</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_45.mp3" length="14514996" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Nine questions&#x2c; nine answers</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>An ND suggests there are 9 questions that pro-vaccine can&#x27;t answer. Ha.  My 12 year old can find the answers.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_45.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 43. Literature update: Il buono&#x2c; il brutto&#x2c; il cattivo.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-03-27T11:06:51-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4e60a2a20f91ee39ab5f43e673cbd90f-44.html#unique-entry-id-44</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4e60a2a20f91ee39ab5f43e673cbd90f-44.html#unique-entry-id-44</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_44.mp3" length="17616662" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Literature update: Il buono&#x2c; il brutto&#x2c; il cattivo</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>An update on a hodgepodge of recent publications concerning placebo&#x2c; homeopathy&#x2c; magnets&#x2c; acupuncture and the nature of reality.   Mislabeled as number 42 in the audio. Sorry. &#xa0;Counting not my strong point.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_44.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 42. The Tamiflu spin.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-02-20T17:50:05-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c1be00d2e85ed3df9c1d696c7b811ad7-43.html#unique-entry-id-43</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c1be00d2e85ed3df9c1d696c7b811ad7-43.html#unique-entry-id-43</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_43.mp3" length="18559303" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Tamiflu spin</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Atlantis&#x2c; er&#x2c; I mean the Atlantic discusses the use of Tamiflu and is as reliable as Plato.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_43.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 41. YOU&#x2c; acupuncture and the military.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-01-23T21:50:31-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/520c6718c32cfde1cf938ece1c7d0282-42.html#unique-entry-id-42</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/520c6718c32cfde1cf938ece1c7d0282-42.html#unique-entry-id-42</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_42.mp3" length="17570141" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>YOU&#x2c; acupuncture and the military.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>An acupuncture review.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_42.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 40. Literature update. Chiropractic and Ginkgo.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2010-01-09T16:54:02-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/eb6e875a9b2d4cf5733bb12dae05f171-41.html#unique-entry-id-41</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/eb6e875a9b2d4cf5733bb12dae05f171-41.html#unique-entry-id-41</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_41.mp3" length="17161065" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Literature update. Chiropractic and Ginkgo.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Literature update. Chiropractic and Ginkgo.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_41.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 39. Measles Update.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-12-27T18:52:25-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/dad38d82fa03f6c4ee8f063e2f64930f-40.html#unique-entry-id-40</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/dad38d82fa03f6c4ee8f063e2f64930f-40.html#unique-entry-id-40</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_40.mp3" length="9878075" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Measles Update.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The MMR doesn&#x2019;t cause autism. Duh.  But it does protect from autism. WTH?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_40.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 38. Mesotherapy.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-12-14T20:33:22-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b5ea3ad085f45ca977ca2b3fea8c02b7-39.html#unique-entry-id-39</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b5ea3ad085f45ca977ca2b3fea8c02b7-39.html#unique-entry-id-39</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_39.mp3" length="9036474" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Mesotherapy</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Do you really think injecting artichoke into your skin will make fat go away? Really?</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_39.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 37. Acai.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-12-09T17:02:23-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4ecf9157266f2bc6113245bf84da7f64-38.html#unique-entry-id-38</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4ecf9157266f2bc6113245bf84da7f64-38.html#unique-entry-id-38</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_38.mp3" length="8241930" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acai</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Acai. Spanish for take the money and run.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_38.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 36. Hi Ho Silver.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-10-24T21:48:51-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3cd583787f0c08f7be1941ea111b8113-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3cd583787f0c08f7be1941ea111b8113-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_35.mp3" length="12347669" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Hi Ho Silver</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The data to support colloidal silver is less than WMD&#x27;s in Iraq.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_35.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 35. Flu vaccine efficacy and 18 taradiddles.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-10-18T19:04:29-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3839f3b631ec8ccd66e2093d4cf96f6c-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/3839f3b631ec8ccd66e2093d4cf96f6c-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_34.mp3" length="16323243" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Quackcast 35. Flu vaccine efficacy and 18 taradiddles.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Does the flu vaccine work? Is the earth an oblate spheroid? Yep. Find out how we know (the vaccine&#x2c; not the earth). Plus 18 flu related taradiddles.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_34.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 34. Flu Woo for You.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-09-16T10:20:21-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2d14fdcc67727023a2b954fbf9eb28c4-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2d14fdcc67727023a2b954fbf9eb28c4-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_33.mp3" length="23504854" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Flu Woo for You</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A tediously long exposition on but a fraction of the flu woo.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_33.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 33. Update on Acupuncture&#x2c; Chiropractic&#x2c; and Herbal Remedies</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-07-05T19:51:07-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/531077e7df3f72608dba5105d99c51b9-32.html#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/531077e7df3f72608dba5105d99c51b9-32.html#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_32.mp3" length="15984532" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Update on Acupuncture&#x2c; Chiropractic and Herbal Remedies</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The following are evaluated:&#xa;&#xa;A Randomized Trial Comparing Acupuncture&#x2c; Simulated Acupuncture&#x2c; and Usual Care for Chronic Low Back Pain. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(9):858-866 &#xa;&#xa;SPINE Volume 34&#x2c; Number 11&#x2c; pp E405&#x2013;E413  &#xa;Safety of Chiropractic Interventions &#xa;A Systematic Review &#xa;&#xa;Red Yeast Rice for Dyslipidemia in Statin-Intolerant Patients &#xa;A Randomized Trial &#xa;David J. Becker&#x2c; MD; Ram Y. Gordon&#x2c; MD; Steven C. Halbert&#x2c; MD; Benjamin French&#x2c; PhD; Patti B. Morris&#x2c; RD; and Daniel J. Rader&#x2c; MD &#xa;Ann Intern Med. 2009;150:830-839. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_32.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 32. Huffpo. 32 Sentences and 57 taradiddles.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-05-14T15:34:18-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b087ad36a5b720c8d0dbc434a068dd3a-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b087ad36a5b720c8d0dbc434a068dd3a-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_31.mp3" length="15624024" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Huffpo 32 Sentences and 57 taradiddles&#x0;</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Merrian-Webster definition&#xa0;of&#xa0;taradiddle. 1 : fib. 2 : pretentious nonsense.&#xa0; How many times can a single blog  post be wrong? </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_31.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 31. Green our SCAM.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-04-13T20:40:26-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ac88a85d3cbb624ed867163ebb369df7-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ac88a85d3cbb624ed867163ebb369df7-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_30.mp3" length="21821776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Green our SCAM</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>TCM is bad for you and the earth.  Gaia cries when you take a Chinese medication.&#xa;Why Scams are bad for Gaia&#x2c; man.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_30.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 30. Lets Kill The Children or A Defense of Vaccines.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2009-02-22T15:12:25-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/48f9db861d8a83f764792aa4b77990f8-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/48f9db861d8a83f764792aa4b77990f8-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_29.mp3" length="18992068" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Lets Kill the Children or A Defense oof Vaccines</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Lets Kill The Children or A Defense of Vaccines.&#x0;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_29.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 29. Reiki and Theraputic Touch</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2008-11-23T15:16:28-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/65e4053e1b0dfeba7e1234dde60bec73-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/65e4053e1b0dfeba7e1234dde60bec73-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_28.mp3" length="18108473" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Reiki and Theraputic Touch.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Energy Therapies abound in SCAMs.  Here are two. Reiki and Theraputic Touch.&#xa;Copyright 2008&#x2c; Creative Commons.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_28.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 28. Vitamin C and the Common Cold</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2008-08-31T17:32:28-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ef1a30cafd8dd408acce77784fda6d1e-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ef1a30cafd8dd408acce77784fda6d1e-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_27.mp3" length="15927457" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Vitamin C and the Common Cold</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Because the Peter Principle rules&#x2c; millions were spent to demonstrate clearly that Vitamin C has minimal effects on the common cold.  Someone needs to return his Nobel prize.&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_27.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 27. Acupuncture and Chiropractic Update.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2008-07-01T13:07:40-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/09a765cc2e3491b0d5144bb3c9538152-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/09a765cc2e3491b0d5144bb3c9538152-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_26.mp3" length="14700844" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupunture and Chiropractic Update</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>This podcasts reviews 2 papers on acupuncture and pain&#x2c; and one on chiropractic and stroke.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_26.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 26. Alternative Aviation</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2008-05-26T15:31:52-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5c6aa9441cb9ec75b2bf73f24809a8ce-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5c6aa9441cb9ec75b2bf73f24809a8ce-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_25.mp3" length="6254871" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Alternative Aviation</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>What if the airlines were run like SCAM.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_25.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 25. Fungi Shui</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2008-05-12T17:13:10-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c4db7ed7b538da98d316751e23eabea1-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/c4db7ed7b538da98d316751e23eabea1-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_24.mp3" length="19536881" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Fungi Shui</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Do toxins from molds cause disease?  Do moulds make great cheeses? The answer to one is no&#x2c; the other is yes. Why do I add a &#x27;u&#x27; to mold? Listen and find out which is which. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_24.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 24. The Yeast Dis Connection</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2008-03-03T12:38:03-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6111264da790f81ad18cd137fdd00e5a-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6111264da790f81ad18cd137fdd00e5a-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_23.mp3" length="18898929" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>The Yeast Dis Connection</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The yeast connection is examined and found to be disconnected.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_23.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 23. Trust No One. But me</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2008-01-20T20:46:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b37b04fcdf8eca2c53540f2ac1bff626-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/b37b04fcdf8eca2c53540f2ac1bff626-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_22.mp3" length="11695270" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Trust No One. But me</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>What an article says and what people say it says&#x2c; and what people say it says it says etc are often not the same thing.  I tediously dissect a medical paper and comment of what two commentators say it says.  If this kind of description&#x2c; much less the podcast&#x2c; is not itself a near death experience&#x2c; I do not know what is.  </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_22.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 22. Boost your imune system and die</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-12-27T21:01:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6319331ae076e5a5967d7d7282813128-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/6319331ae076e5a5967d7d7282813128-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_21.mp3" length="11596534" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Boost your imune system and die</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A cursory review of the immune system and then a review of some medical literature that suggests boosting it will cause you to die die die die die die die die die die die die die........&#xa;Got carried away.&#xa;Were all gonna DIE&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#xa;Sorry.  I panic easily.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_21.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 21. Acupuncture update</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-11-20T21:01:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2eddeb5b04ea21332c46e5f10bafc703-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/2eddeb5b04ea21332c46e5f10bafc703-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_20.mp3" length="13650203" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture update.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Quackcast 21&#x2c; my podcast can now drink in Oregon.  </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_20.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 20. Influenza myths</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-10-22T21:01:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d84e5920310b9d37d5afa60037fef9b3-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d84e5920310b9d37d5afa60037fef9b3-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_19.mp3" length="10398211" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Influenza Myths</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The flu can kill you. What YOU can do to prevent it.  Tonight on the 10 o&#x27;clock news. Plus&#x2c; the truth behind Brittany&#x27;s hair.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_19.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 19. Iridology</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-09-19T20:46:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/862e03faee7a1bbe1880c37a3eb7af32-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/862e03faee7a1bbe1880c37a3eb7af32-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_18.mp3" length="12259016" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Iridology</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A look at the iridology&#x2c; a form of fiction mistaken as a diganostic modality.  Get it. Look. Iridology.  So much funnier than working &#x27;point&#x27; in to an accupuncture story.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_18.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 18. Update 2 Echinacea Meta Anal Ysis</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-08-16T20:46:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/11eeeb60493743ebe9e10bd943d37059-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/11eeeb60493743ebe9e10bd943d37059-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_17.mp3" length="12728223" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Update 2 Echinacea Meta Anal Ysis </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The Lancet published a meta anal ysis of echinacea and concluded it was effective.  Is it true? Well&#x2c; what is truth?  Listen to the podcast and hear my truth.&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_17.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>QuackCast 17: Update 1. NUCCA&#x2c; The Curley of Chiropractic</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-06-28T20:46:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/97017a90c558a66d6c6217831f6b045e-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/97017a90c558a66d6c6217831f6b045e-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_16.mp3" length="6600827" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Update 1. NUCCA&#x2c; The Curley of Chiropractic</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>An evaluation of &#x22;Atlas vertebrae realignment and achievement of arterial pressure goal in hypertensive patients: a pilot study.&#x22;&#xa;Published in 2007 in the journal of Human Hypertension.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_16.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 16. Probiotics</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-05-15T20:46:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/35886c0ce4a4bb7d47e28d133bcf20dc-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/35886c0ce4a4bb7d47e28d133bcf20dc-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_15.mp3" length="12948506" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Protbiotics</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A review of probiotics: theory&#x2c; use and complications. &#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_15.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 15. Magnet Therapy</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-04-02T20:46:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5a433c49fe34f387dc1b3b1793062cf6-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/5a433c49fe34f387dc1b3b1793062cf6-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_14.mp3" length="10913509" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Magnet Therapy</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A review of magnets as a medical intervention.  I really should have called it the crap cast&#x2c; because this is crap.  Not the podcast.  Magnetic therapy. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_14.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 14. Naturopathy. Quacks of all trades&#x2c; masters of none.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-02-27T20:46:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a92bd36d22cab8364e6080329b65b729-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a92bd36d22cab8364e6080329b65b729-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_13.mp3" length="10173461" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Naturopathy. Quacks of all trades&#x2c; masters of none.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A review of the practice of naturopathy&#x2c; not particularly favorable for some odd reason.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_13.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 13. Herbal &#x22;Remedies.&#x22; Like &#x22;Fresh&#x22; Fish.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2007-01-22T20:46:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a9cad97c9a98ff30fbb747e8b7fbaa91-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a9cad97c9a98ff30fbb747e8b7fbaa91-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_12.mp3" length="12291397" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Herbal Remedies. Like Fresh Fish</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A tour of some poplular herbs. Reviewing  the medical literature with commentary of the following herbs: ecchinacea&#x2c; ginko&#x2c; st johns wort&#x2c; black cohash&#x2c; saw palmetto&#x2c; and glucosamine/chondrotin. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_12.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 12. How to Identify Quackery and Homeopathic Horrors.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-12-24T21:01:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/57bf0065160649671fb28ff1ac99b8b0-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/57bf0065160649671fb28ff1ac99b8b0-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_11.mp3" length="10853947" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle> How to Identify Quackery and Homeopathic Horrors.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Seven rules of thumb to identify quackery&#x2c; with examples.&#xa;Also more on the potential dangers of homeopathy.&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_11.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 11. Chiropractic. Efficacy and Complications</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-11-20T20:45:00-08:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9995ad78c0fd284e02dfc46b91285a64-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/9995ad78c0fd284e02dfc46b91285a64-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_10.mp3" length="7698792" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chiropractic. Efficacy and Complications</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Does Chiropractic work for low back pain? Other diseases? Is it safe? What does it take to get into Chiropractic School?  The answer to all this and more in this podcast.  </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_10.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 10. Chiropractic. History and Theory</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-09-30T20:45:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/7219a04d8d3b1302766cae8ea96f991f-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/7219a04d8d3b1302766cae8ea96f991f-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_9.mp3" length="5507211" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Chiropractic History and Theory </itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The theory of chiropractic is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality.  It has no biologic or physiologic plausibility.  But it doesn&#x27;t stop the AMA having its legal rear handed them by the Chiropractors. </itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_9.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 9. Lies&#x2c; Damn Lies and the use of SCAM.</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-08-31T20:45:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a06e6ca005d4e27df6684c96ee51ec7c-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/a06e6ca005d4e27df6684c96ee51ec7c-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_8.mp3" length="7268007" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Lies&#x2c; Damn Lies and the use of SCAM.&#x0;</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>34&#x25; to 42&#x25; of Americans use alternative medicine each year.&#xa;True? Of course not. See how data is misrepresented to support nonsense.</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 8. Acupuncture Efficacy</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-08-05T20:45:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8ebeb361e137156dbf1a149d519d78f3-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/8ebeb361e137156dbf1a149d519d78f3-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_7.mp3" length="4762123" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture Efficacy</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The efficacy of acupuncture is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality. It doesn&#x27;t work and has the potential to cause real harm. &#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_7.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 7. Theory of Acupuncture</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-07-11T21:01:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ece582b45130d7d05824d2a4cbcf2ed7-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/ece582b45130d7d05824d2a4cbcf2ed7-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_6.mp3" length="5463802" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Acupuncture Theory</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The theory of acupuncture is reviewed and found to be wanting when compared with reality.  It has no biologic or physiologic plausibility.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_6.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 6. Prayer</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-06-25T21:01:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/25971dc9d59e4a8b47e68c5ef98dee53-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/25971dc9d59e4a8b47e68c5ef98dee53-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_5.mp3" length="4700028" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Prayer</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>A review of the medical literature suggests that prayer is not an efficacious therapeutic intervention for medical illnesses.&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_5.png" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 5. Placebo Effect</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-05-22T21:01:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/86a7e46140668fbce2b4ae2cfe7470cc-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/86a7e46140668fbce2b4ae2cfe7470cc-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_4.mp3" length="3806058" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Placebo Effect</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>SCAM effects are often attributed to the placebo effect.  Turns out the placebo effect does not exist. So when the effect of SCAM is equal to placebo effect&#x2c; it is the same as saying it is equal to nothing.  How true&#x2c; how true.&#x0;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_4.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 4. Homeopathy Clinical Trials</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-05-12T21:00:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4b29f74d4b4af7485a7c75e8b613037c-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/4b29f74d4b4af7485a7c75e8b613037c-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_3.mp3" length="4582526" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Homeopathic Clinical Trials</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Clinical trials of homeopathy are of poor quality and treat self limited diseases.  The better the study&#x2c; the less well homeopathy does.  In the best meta analysis to date&#x2c; it is concluded that homeopathy doesn&#x27;t work. Duh.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_3.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 3. Homeopathic Theory</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-05-07T21:00:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d983cf2b886bfa05ec906718cc4da20b-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d983cf2b886bfa05ec906718cc4da20b-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_2.mp3" length="3184456" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Homeopathy Theory</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Of all the kinds of SCAM available&#x2c; Homeopathy has to be the most ridiculous. And that&#x2019;s saying something. Listen and see why.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_2.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 2. Echinacea</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-05-06T21:00:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f02dd462112c4a81dd2e660822bf4897-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/f02dd462112c4a81dd2e660822bf4897-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_1.mp3" length="4164600" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Echinacea</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Echinacea. A useful adjunct or a load of crap. What do you think I&#x2019;m going to say?&#xa;Crap.&#xa;</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_1.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item><item><title>Quackcast 1. Opening Salvo</title><dc:creator>knowitallmac@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>Science</category><dc:date>2006-05-04T21:00:00-07:00</dc:date><link>http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d53244c4a08046a678e693e1178fa53b-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/d53244c4a08046a678e693e1178fa53b-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ 


Podcast]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_0.mp3" length="2940291" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Mark Crislip</itunes:author><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:subtitle>Opening Salvo</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Opening Salvo: An occasional skeptical and sarcastic review of alternative medicine. Today: General approach to human gullibility.</itunes:summary><itunes:image href="http://www.quackcast.com/spodcasts/files/podcast_image_0.jpg" /><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit></item></channel>
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