Feeling better?

There's been a burst of pretty good reporting on medical-related quackery of late. Here's a brief post about Zicam, which comes in the wake of a solid AP piece on the same subject. AP has been doing an irregular series on "non traditional medicines" and Newsweek recently did a very good cover story on some of the humbuggery spread via Oprah. Here's a good reaction piece to the Newsweek effort.
None of this stuff has been as bad as that terrible series Channel 9 (Chattanooga) did awhile back about "brain cancer" in Dalton. Someone should have been fired for putting that crap on the air. Then again, much of what passes for health reporting is badly, badly done.