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Welcome

Welcome to Quackademic, where questionable clinical reasoning meets inconvenient evidence and the occasional dose of sarcasm. Here we examine diagnostic overconfidence, medical dogma, professional double standards, and the extraordinary things that sometimes pass for clinical certainty. From diagnosing strangers on social media to treating ordinary patient behaviour as suspicious, nothing is automatically beyond criticism. The articles may be satirical, but the questions behind them are serious. What evidence supports the claim? What has been overlooked? And what happens to patients when confident assumptions turn out to be wrong? Professional titles don't make arguments immune to scrutiny. Evidence matters. Patients matter. Egos are optional.