Christopher Maloney is a quack and naturopathic “medicine” is pure bullshit. Does anyone with more than two brain cells actually fall for this crap:
Parents waiting for vaccinations can provide their children with black elderberry, which blocks the H1N1 virus. A single garlic capsule daily cuts in half the incidence and the severity of a flu episode for children.
Because I’m not only a Pharyngula lackey but a fan of science and rationality over fantasy, fraud, deception, and superstition, I’m urging both of my readers to spread the word: Christopher Maloney is a quack
Not a lackey, but spouting the lies of your master?
Dear “Reverend” PZ Meyers,
How fitting that, three hundred years later, the witch trials continue. If you recall, it was the herbalists that were burned then as well. Your flock has spoken to me, Reverend Meyers, with the shrieking common to all fundamentalist cults. I believe if you check you will find that fundamentalism involves a closed mind while doing science requires an open mind. It also involves a thing they call research.
Do you do basic research into a person’s claims before posting? Did you perhaps go to medline and type the words “elderberry” and “H1N1”? Did you even bother to read my original editorial that cites Cochrane database and CDC raw data? If you had done basic research or contacted me directly you would perhaps not have posted lies in your blog.
You can call me an idiot and a quack, but when you repeat the “fact” that I am not a doctor and not qualified, that is a written lie or libel. I am a doctor under Maine state law and meet the qualifications of that title.
In terms of poor maligned elderberry, the medline citation is “The H1N1 inhibition activities of the elderberry flavonoids compare favorably to the known anti-influenza activities of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu; 0.32 microM) and Amantadine (27 microM). (Phytochemistry. 2009 Jul;70(10):1255-61) While this is a test tube study only, please keep in mind that we had no vaccine and were at the peak of the pandemic here in Maine. I never suggested elderberry as a vaccination but as a possible home treatment for sick children.
Michael Hawkins is an undergraduate at UMA who replied to my editorial. His rambling editorial was not based on science or research, but his need to publicize himself. After failing to get an editorial published against God he decided I was, flatteringly, next on the list. All of the research and medline citations for my editorial are available under swine flu on my website, and were there for Mr. Hawkins to simply see. But, despite the reality that I practice evidence-based medicine, neither you nor Mr. Hawkins have ever bothered to read my site.
Mr. Hawkins managed to get his own website suspended by arguing with his server about what constitutes libel and blames me. I have never directly contacted WordPress about him and I have never replied to either his hate posts or his email attacks on me personally. In doing my own research, I found that another individual is in the process of filing a lawsuit against Mr. Hawkins and requested that the individual write to Mr. Hawkins directly. It was this other individual in South Carolina, and not me, that helped Mr. Hawkins get himself kicked off. Since Mr. Hawkins has received that email today, I believe that your case against me as an enemy of free speech should be re-examined.
It terms of his accusations against me that you have posted on your blog, I have taken the time to answer them at length and with scientific citations on my website: http://www.maloneymedical.com. I am also in the process of creating a more tolerable Youtube video for your flock.
Thank you, Reverend Myers, for burning me without trial. It’s nice to know some things never change.
Christopher Maloney, N.D.
You don’t have to be a farmer to identify bullshit. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/christopher_maloney_still_a_qu.php
The comments are hilarious.
Ahh, yes, the sweet smell of an inactive brain. Perhaps you’d like to dip over to PZ’s update, where he says: “oops, I burned the wrong guy. Oh, well, carry on.” Or maybe have a look at my website: , where I provide actual medical data as opposed to ranting without information.
This is funny. Maloney gets schooled by an undergraduate, and keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper. There is a fantastic piece on Maloney’s complete lack of scientific knowledge and/or honesty at Neurologica today.
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1618
Sorry Maloney, but you are pushing pure quackery, and all the BS in the world isn’t going to change that.
Dear James Woodstock,
In fact, Dr. Novella is running from me. Looks like you don’t have a single true scientist among you. How pathetic to refer to your high priest when your master is in error.
What he said: http://hjhop.blogspot.com/2010/02/christopher-maloney-is-quack.html
Having finished with Novella, I spent the last month searching for a single scientist on the endless thread. If not a scientist, at least someone literate in medical literature. After a month, total success was zero. None of you can keep up. Profanity is the the last refuge of a decaying mind.
http://hjhop.blogspot.com/2010/04/quackadoodledooo.html since I don’t normally use such salty prose on this site.