Nancy Snyderman
oracknows | February 13, 2013Yesterday, I wrote about how "they" view "us," the "they" being believers in dubious medicine, pseudoscience, and outright quackery. As examples, I used believers in the unsupported claims of "brave maverick" cancer doctor Stanislaw Burzynski and antivaccine activists who are utterly convinced, against all science and evidence, that vaccines caused their children's autism. I pointed out at the time that many of these people really, really do believe that "we" (i.e., skeptics and supporters of science-based medicine who criticize the various modalities they passionately believe in) are not…
oracknows | October 16, 2012I take back all those nice things I used to say about Nancy Snyderman.
There's no doubt that she "gets it" about vaccines and, for the most part, even though she does occasionally go overboard, and her understanding of the issues involved in the use of various vaccines is anything but nuanced. I used to think that she "got it" with respect to SBM, but then I saw her recent segment on "complementary" medicine on NBC News the other night. Here's part one, which aired Monday night:
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The very introduction made me groan,…