How can so much stupidity about medicine be packed into one article? [Respectful Insolence]

I’m currently in Las Vegas at The Amazing Meeting. Believe it or not, I was even on a panel! While I’m gone, I’ll probably manage to do a new post or two, but, in the meantime, while I’m away communing with fellow skeptics at TAM7, I’ll be reposting some Classic Insolence from the month of July in years past. (After all, if you haven’t been following this blog at least a year, it’ll be new to you. And if you have I hope you enjoy it again.) This particular post first appeared in July 2007.

Mike Adams is an idiot.

There, I said it.

Adams runs the NewsTarget website, a repository for all things “alternative” medicine. In it, he rails against “conventional” medicine as utterly useless and touts all manner of woo as the “cure” for a variety of diseases. I generally ignore his website these days because I fear that reading it regularly will cause me to lose too many neurons, and, as I get older, I want to hold on to my what neurons I have remaining for as long as possible, or, if I must lose them, to do so in a pleasurable way, perhaps as a result of a fine bottle of wine. But, then MarkH had to go and point out an example where Mike Adams has surpassed himself in the amount of sheer stupidity and logical fallacies packed into a single article. The article is entitled, The false gods of scientific medicine revealed: It’s a cult, not a science.

The stupid, it really does burn.

Mark’s done a great job of taking this idiocy down, but does that mean that there’s nothing left for me? Of course not! Get a load of this quote:

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