Post number 1000 !!!

17 Responses to Post number 1000 !!!

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  Barrie Lee 'Wellness' Thorpe on Monday 12 June 2017 at 10:18

  Don’t worry.
  Colin and Iqbal- think of them as a present-day Cannon and Ball- look keen to provide a flow of material.

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  Richard Rawlins on Monday 12 June 2017 at 10:46

  VERY MANY CONGRATULATIONS!

  Here’s to the next one thousand!

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  Michael Kenny on Monday 12 June 2017 at 14:19

  Your books are phenomenal and your pithy, perspicacious, vitally necessary and always witty posts have become a distinct enjoyment to my life. Please continue to write and we’ll continue to read and spread your insights.

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  Frank Odds on Monday 12 June 2017 at 14:47

  Congratulations on kilo posting your excellent blog. I’ve learned a lot from it: thanks very much for hosting it.

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  CG DVM on Monday 12 June 2017 at 14:58

  Good effort….keep shining he reality beacon through the foggy noise that is pseudoscience.

  How about looking at low level laser therapy (LLLT) the industry that has grown up around it and the extraordinary claims made without the provision of extraordinary proof?

  Here is a good example https://www.thorlaser.com/pet/.

  In this example someone is actually shining a laser directly into the eye of a dog. Pardon my language but WTF is going on here. Besides perhaps animal abuse and charlatanism these people know nothing about science except that you can buy a shitload of studies on anything you want “published” in obscure foreign journals and extrapolate in vitro results to in vivo applications spaning the spectrum of species and the encyclopedia of maladies.

  Thank you Edzard and please I hope the rounds session on vin is going to be made a reality.

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    Edzard on Monday 12 June 2017 at 15:09

    thanks
    the VIN lecture is on the 15th.

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    Michael Kenny on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 00:06

    Yes the Class IIIb and more recently the “hot, high-power” Class IV lasers are ubiquitous especially in Chiropractic. And like Chiropractic can only be seen to make sense through a crazy prism. The FDA, Aetna and Blue Cross have all deemed them ‘investigational’ and insurance won’t pay, however millions of suckers gladly hand over $25-100.00 per 8-10min session. Photobiomodulation is the scam buzzword.
    I’ve seen many unctuous clinicians waving these things in the sign-of-a-cross (over clothing and several inches above the patient) to super-enhance their spiritual healing power. Which of course most of would agree only makes sense,

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      chris on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 15:46

      Dr. Ernst,
      VIN has the round listed as happening on June 15th

      ” Thursday, June 15, 2017, 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time – VIN Rounds
      (Sunday, June 15, 1 pm ET)
      Join Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD, FMedSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd, for Homeopathy – Errors and Facts.
      This session will feature audio and a GoToWebinar. Register for the GoToWebinar to attend this Rounds.
      Add to Calendar”

      I requested they confirm with you.

      Thanks

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        Edzard on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 15:55

        that’s what I said, isn’t it?

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          CG DVM on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 20:57

          I asked VIN to correct the ” (Sunday June 15th)” part since the 15th is a Thursday.
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      CG DVM on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 21:09

      Yes Michael, my field is filled with laser selling charlatans…. Once a week I get offers to buy them and monthly people come to my office selling them. The markup on those devices must be incredible. The gobbledygook sales pitch about mitochondrial stimulation is so bogus…. Plus do you think there are actually established “dosages ” of power wavelength and time for different maladies, in different species…? I often tell the lllt salesforce that instead of buying that $40,000 Laser, I could simply fill a palpation sleeve with a warm bran mash apply it to the affected area and get the same result.

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  Samuel Homola on Monday 12 June 2017 at 15:47

  Thank you for your work, Edzard. Reading your very informative column has become an important part of my daily routine. I’m looking forward to reading more of your work in the years to come.

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  Leigh Jackson on Monday 12 June 2017 at 18:01

  Grazie mille per tutti!

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  Peter Dyson on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 04:47

  From your last post, “Currently, over 50 000 000 websites promote alternative medicine”, so you have 49999000 to go!

  Keep up the good work.

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    Tom on Wednesday 03 November 2021 at 11:51

    Yes, laser therapy has a history of dozens years, it can treat a wide range of acute and chronic pain, it is Top 25 Cold laser Therapy Research, Low Level Laser Therapy Case study

    https://healthcaremarts.com/blogs/healthcare-center/cold-laser-therapy-research

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  Iqbal Krishna on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 06:07

  Edzard

  “The comments are the most important feature of this blog, I feel. And because they are so crucial, I would like to say to all commenters: MANY THANKS, WITHOUT YOU THIS WOULD NOT BE HALF AS MUCH FUN!”

  138 comments (including this) for the last 10 posts against earlier average of 30!!!!!!!!
  Great going. Statistically, You are going in the right direction.

  Continue with your removing of comments that you “JUDGE” to be “trying to sully your REPUTATION”.
  Next target for comments per post: 3.8 average?

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    Edzard on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 06:11

    thank you for your undoubtedly warm-felt and honest congratulations.

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