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Medicine

The 48th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: Last Will and Testament

This time around for 48th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle, a skeptic by the ‘nym of decorabilia presents his Last Will and Testament to the Circle, and bequeaths his worldly possessions to his fellow skeptics: I am old and tired, my son. I feel the creeping chill of death in these creaking bones. I smell […]

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Bioethics Cancer Clinical trials Medicine

The ethics of clinical trials for terminally ill cancer patients

A few days ago, I posted a response to another physician who was not happy with me, no, not happy with me at all. What made him unhappy was the vociferousness with which I criticized the creeping infiltration of woo that is insinuating itself into medical school curricula and expressed dismay at the threat that […]

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Entertainment/culture

A quick question for my readers

On Saturday afternoon, after a morning of rounding on the service’s patients and doing some odds and ends in the office and the lab, on the way home I stopped at the local Best Buy because I needed some blank DVDs. To my puzzlement, there were people lined up outside as though they were camping […]

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Paranormal Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Wading through more Choprawoo

I tried not to do it. I really did. I tried to resist the temptation to respond to Deepak Chopra’s latest incursions into woo as he flailed futilely at Richard Dawkins’ arguments for science. Fortunately, PZ Myers and MarkCC have been around to take down his idiocy. But then I thought about it Why should […]

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Medicine

Pediatric Grand Rounds

The latest Pediatric Grand Rounds has been posted, and this time it’s being hosted by fellow ScienceBlogger Tara Smith at Aetiology. Check it out.