"Salacious but iffy?"
In the Washington Post recently, Michael Miller covered the life and death of James Jeffrey Bradstreet, a doctor with controversial ideas about causes and treatments of autism ("Anti-vaccine doctor behind ‘dangerous’ autism therapy found dead. Family cries foul.". 6/29/2015). The treatments Bradstreet favored included intravenous secretin, "intravenous immunogloblin" [sic], chelation therapy, hyperbaric oxygen chambers, and stem cell therapy.
The reader who sent me the link noticed a strange word choice in the article:
But as the National Enquirer coverage suggests, some of these treatments were salacious but scientifically iffy.
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