Medicine works. When progressives insisted Science Is A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy it was dumb. Vani Hari and Joe Mercola, DO, and the rest jumping on the MAHA train and claiming Science Is A Left Wing Conspiracy (enjoy endorsing glyphosate you two!) is still dumb.

Because facts are real.

If I get cancer, I would like to avoid chemotherapy by taking a vitamin C pill or buying Organic™ food. And that is the promise of alternatives to medicine hucksters. Evil companies want to make you sick, or keep you that way, and some diet, pill, or 'suppressed' miracle product like methylene blue will run them out of business.

It won't. It will only keep funeral parlors doing well.

A new analysis found that not only do alternatives to medicine not improve outcomes - Steve Jobs could've told them that, if he wasn't in hospice by the time he realized it - they are as bad as doing nothing at all. 

Your survival rate is the same as if you just ignored that lump on your breast.

The data were 2,000,000 women in the National Cancer Database diagnosed with breast cancer from 2011-2021. Nearly 98 percent used real medicine while only 0.1% used alternatives.

If you are skeptical about that last part, you should be. Wealthy white women love alternatives to medicine and organic food and all the sociological stuff that goes with it, and they are a lot more than 0.1%. Did they get alarmed and embrace medicine the way Democrats stopped having measles parties in the beginning of 2020 and bought their way to the front of the line by the end?

It's unlikely, And Dr. Perry Wilson explains why the government cancer database has much numbers than what other studies report; oncologists are not writing down that you do acupuncture or mindfulness training unless you are such a zealot they feel compelled by defensive medicine legal training to document it when the deceased's family sues, so they are protected by a paperwork trail.

And they are a lot more likely to be deceased. Those who did alternatives to medicine were 3.7X more likely to be dead than those who used science, while those who did nothing were 3.5X higher risk.



Supplements and healing energy is the same as doing nothing. 

It's fine if you want to 'complement' your cancer treatment with music therapy or whatever. My wife died from cancer, I can only imagine how much she would have loved anything that made her feel better, but science battled for her until the end.

And supplement grifters would already have been onto their next customer.

Citation: Ayoade OF, Caturegli G, Canavan ME, Resio BJ, Berger ER, Boffa DJ. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Management of Breast Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(3):e260337. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2845669?sou...