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Cute Mayo Clinic Videos. Bad Science

The prestigious Mayo Clinic regularly gets itself into hot water across evidence-based medicine and skeptics circles (see here ) for its heavy promotion of questionable science; Mayo is particularly entrenched in the complementary/alternative/integrative/functional medicine (CAM/IFM) movement that is taking academic medical centers by storm (it even has a peer reviewed publication about its CAM use). Mayo, like other famous clinics, seems more than happy to promote its clinic with low-to-no evidence modalities that have been re-branded under the CAM/IFM movement. There's a nutrition video that Mayo has produced and is circulating around the social media spheres. I've seen it before but today it made me particularly annoyed so here we are. The video covers the role of a whole foods plant-based diet as 'powerful medicine' with a focus on cancer. You can see the video embedded below. A link to their tweet with the video can be found here   and its also up on their YouTub