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We know that theres a lot of pseudoscience in the world of medicine. There are doctors promoting homeopathic remedies, selling anecdotes as if theyre scientific facts, and offering alternative (useless) treatments to very real problems.

But we dont often hear those stories when they involve animals.

Brennen McKenzie is a veterinarian whos been working to expose BS in his field through his blog The SkeptVet. In an interview with NPR over the weekend, he offered an example of what he fights against:

Take anti-vaccine activism: Some people claim that veterinary vaccines should be avoided because their risks are greater than their benefits and they cause all sorts of horrible diseases. But theres no evidence that vaccines actually do that.

There are people out there refusing to vaccinate their pets because they think itll do damage to them. Jesus I had no idea Jenny McCarthy dabbled in veterinary medicine, too.

Check out the full interview.

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Read more from the original source:
There's Plenty of Pseudoscience in Veterinary Medicine, Too - Patheos (blog)

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