About Dr. Crislip

Mark Crislip, MD has been a practicing Infectious Disease specialist in Portland, Oregon, since 1990. He is responsible for the Quackcast, a skeptical review of Supplements and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (SCAM), three time winner of best health podcast; The Persiflagers Annotated Compendium of Infectious Disease Facts, Dogma and Opinion, a guide to infectious diseases; the Persiflagers Infectious Disease Puscast, a podcast review of infectious diseases, and Rubor, Dolor, Calor, Tumor, an Infectious Disease blog.

Oh yeah. And A Gobbet ‘o Pus, a podcast repeat of Rubor, Dolor, Calor, Tumor. He also has an iOS app and his ID blog entries have been collected and are available on the Kindle as Puswhisperer. A Year in the Life of an Infectious Disease Doctor.

Part II Topics

• Have you ever been to a chiropractor?
• Placebo effect
• The importance of risk vs. benefit and comparing alternative and traditional medicine
• What is your favorite microbe?
• If you had to limit yourself to one topic of debate - homeopathy, vaccines, reiki, aliens - which would it be?
• The Society for Science-Based Medicine
• The difference between education and critical thinking and the prevalence of gullible-$h!7s.
• Evidence-based chiropractic & NCCAM
• What advice would you give to a student pondering chiropractic school? (Hint: Learn how badly you think and apply it to yourself.)

For more information on Dr. Crislip, check out edgydoc.com and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

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Stay tuned for the second part of my interview with Dr. Crislip and an episode with South Africa.