So, in Utah HB 399 was introduced this session to ban conversion therapy in Utah. Similar legislation has gained some momentum across the country and is currently the law in 13 states as well as in some municipalities where the state does not have those protections in place. The bill was introduced by Rep. Craig …
Tag: Pseudoscience
Try as I may…
I quite often spend time just shaking my head at folks. Grown adults that should know better and yet the crap that comes out of their mouths would fertilize a farm field. Blood exchange, giving an older person a younger person’s blood to help invigorate them? Ok, seriously when they fired up the large hadron …
Please don’t diagnose addiction…
Let me say this situation is the latest in a stream of crap that has rolled by me in my professional life. So tonight, a patient presented in the ER, that was reported to the ER physician by his wife and his bishop, as having a substance use problem. For those of you not in …
Cleanses…schmeanses
Oh, the high colonic. The use of it has been attributed to increasing your health. John Harvey Kellogg of cornflakes today, of course, is said to have used them to manipulate the intestinal flora. In the late 1800s, he founded a sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan. During this time, he promoted a vegetarian diet as …