Complementary Meds

Homeopathy is based on the assumption that the entire modern scientific community, 90% of all doctors, and 28 international scientific organisations are completely wrong about this form of treatment, but that a group of anti-science quacks has got it all exactly right.

The HPV vaccine Gardasil is one of great successes of modern medicine and is on the way to ELIMINATING cervical cancer in countries from Sweden to Australia! HHS Secretary RFK Jr : it kills people 🤡🤡

My favorite wellness hack is vaccination.

This is a never-ending, absolutely brainless and utterly nonsensical "argument" that suckers of alternative medicine and sympathizers of Ayurveda and Homeopathy keep asking the medical community. This shows how poorly educated the common social media troll is about human body, basic diseases and simple management goals. 200 years ago (early 1800s), Type 1 diabetes was a guaranteed death sentence - diagnosis to death in weeks to months, often in children. Even Type 2 diabetes patients with significant disease rarely survived long. It wasn't until Banting and Best discovered insulin in 1921 that a child with diabetes stopped being a child with a funeral date. Before insulin, doctors [known as Allopaths at the time] literally prescribed starvation diets as the only way to buy a few extra months. Hypertension (not BP - that is blood pressure) wasn't even recognized as a disease 200 years ago. No sphygmomanometer in clinical use until the late 1800s. People simply dropped dead of "apoplexy" (strokes) and "dropsy" (heart failure) in their 40s and nobody knew why. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - the 32nd President of the United States died of uncontrolled hypertension in 1945 - even that recently, effective antihypertensives didn't exist. Average post-diagnosis survival with malignant hypertension in the 1930s was about 6 months. Hypothyroidism (not thyroid - that is the gland) severe cases progressed to myxedema coma — fatal in the vast majority 200 years ago. Cretinism (congenital hypothyroidism) left entire mountain communities with irreversible intellectual disability. Every single one of these "incurable" conditions was a killer or a crippler before modern medicine turned them into manageable chronic diseases. That's not failure - that's a miracle this troll is too scientifically illiterate to appreciate. Some diseases do not require a cure. They require control. Remission. People live long lives because medical science and scientific discoveries entered the chat. So dear fool, please dont bring this rotten argument like a headless chicken, into an adult conversation ever again.

If you have been undergoing #acupuncture treatments weekly for 5 years and benefits are so minimal I'd suggest it isn't working and you are wasting your money! On that basis, it's not such a great idea to make a post claiming it "benefits lung cancer".

Christ on a bike, it’s pretty much on track to wipe out almost all cervical cancer. Don’t get vaccine advice from actors.

Before vaccines, 1 in 5 kids never made it to their first birthday

Have you become radicalised by wellness grifters? #QuackONeill

This is an interesting read. I would like to add one further point. Most alternative therapies have been extensively tested and there is no good evidence they provide any benefits. Implausible + tested and not effective = no value in further trials.

A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims. Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

9 cases in 5 years might seem like a small number. However, once you take into account that #chiropractic treatments have little or no benefit for any condition it becomes a much bigger issue. No benefit with rare occurrence of a stroke doesn't seem like a good treatment at all

Investigation into Measles Vaccination Fraud: nearly all of it committed by doctors practising so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) edzardernst.com/2026/02/invest… via @edzardernst

On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/6011Aa3Et

Mental health misinformation is rampant on social media. In our study, 33% of popular mental health videos on TikTok that offered advice and information were misleading. These videos were watched over 1 billion times. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

This is incredibly worrying news. Measles is a highly contagious and dangerous virus. It can cause severe complications such as deafness, brain damage and death – and young children under five are particularly vulnerable. Measles is also one of the most highly infectious viruses. Spending just 15 minutes in direct contact with someone infected with measles is enough to catch it yourself. This outbreak is likely to be linked to low levels of MMR vaccination in the capital – which is itself a tragedy because these patents are trying to protect their children from harm, fearful that the disinformation spread by antivaxxers may be true. If you are a parent who feels worried about the MMR, please, I urge you, read the excellent, evidence-based NHS information on MMR by searching for "NHS" and "MMR". I promise you, as an experienced doctor who cares more about patient safety than anything, that I would never encourage use of a medicine whose safety did not vastly outstrip its potential risks (which, for MMR, are very rare – and, most notably, large scale trials have shown the vaccine to have no demonstrable link whatsoever to autism). Please also consider reading the author Roald Dahl’s heartbreaking account of the death of his daughter, Olivia, aged 7, from measles, which I have shared in the images below in full. In the agony of his grief, all he wanted to do was save other parents from such suffering by encouraging them to get their children vaccinated: “Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old… I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.” - Roald Dahl Please share. Thank you 🙏

#osteopathy and #chiropractic are very similar, with lots of common treatment approaches and the same types of (often misleading) claims. Maintenance treatments from chiropractors or osteopaths are not beneficial but look at these very similar misleading claims in adverts:

Not a single word of this is true

The Bent Spoon Award is presented annually in Australia to "the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle." Newest winner: Barbara O’Neill for promoting alternative medicine pseudoscience for serious health conditions and lying about qualifications. skeptics.com.au/about/activiti…

Stop calling it Allopathy. It is a request.

Much like #chiropractic, the ideas behind #osteopathy were developed before much of modern science and medicine. The "interrelationship between structure and function" might have seemed a good idea 150 years ago but since then medicine has progressed and it's now clearly nonsense