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Homeopathy
November 12, 2021 Homeopathic medicine is the brainchild of Samuel Hahnemann who was born in 1755 and died in 1843. He began concocting...
Dr. Ferguson

Authority as Justification for a Medical Treatment
October 29, 2021 There are many who have been disappointed in scientific medical care. Human practitioners of scientific medicine are...
Dr. Ferguson

The Relative Value of Different Types of Information
October 15, 2021 To what extent are research findings likely to have identified an actual trend? What is the likelihood that the findings...
Dr. Ferguson

Trusted Sources of Information
October 1, 2021 Who do you want operating on your liver? A surgeon or a politician? Who do you want flying your airplane? A pilot or a...
Dr. Ferguson

Vaccines for COVID-19
September 17, 2021 A vaccine is a drug. One of the most sacred duties of a physician is deciding whether a patient should be taking a...
Dr. Ferguson

The Placebo Effect
A placebo is an inactive treatment. The placebo effect is the observed improvement in symptoms that occurs when an inactive treatment is...
Dr. Ferguson


Natural is Neutral
Hucksters selling useless medical treatments love to say their treatments are “natural.” So we must ask the question, what is the value...
Dr. Ferguson


Correlation is Not Always an Indicator of Causation
When two facts are related, sometimes one causes the other. But causation is not always present when facts are correlated. Parts of the...
Dr. Ferguson
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