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Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

“Integrative” medicine at Yale: A more “fluid” concept of evidence?

I realize that I’ve been very, very remiss in attending to a task that I’ve been meaning to get to since late January. There are several reasons, albeit not excuses, for why I have failed to do this task. Perhaps the most powerful impediment to my overcoming my inertia and just diving in and doing […]

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Entertainment/culture Music

Sunday afternoon YouTube: David Bowie

What better thing to do than to do a little Sunday afternoon YouTube action with my all time favorite artist, David Bowie? This time, it’s one of the best songs in Bowie’s entire catalog.

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Entertainment/culture News of the Weird

A worthy recipient of a Darwin Award

Yesterday’s post sucked all the blogging life out of me for the moment, so here’s a quickie. If there’s anyone who deserves a Darwin Award, it’s this guy here: AUBURN — A man talking on a cell phone while walking Wednesday on railroad tracks was hit by a train and killed. He was the second […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Some monkey business in autism research (or, why it is not a good idea to provoke Orac)

Believe it or not, even I, Orac, sometimes get tired of blogging about antivaccination idiocy. Indeed, this week was just such a time. I hope you can’t blame me. After all, the last few months have been so chock-full of some of the most bizarre and annoying antics of antivaccinationists at such a frequent clip […]

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Entertainment/culture History Politics Television World War II

Those who use the Neville Chamberlain gambit don’t even know what Neville Chamberlain actually did

This is too hilarious for words. It’s priceless. It’s Chris Matthews applying a little history smackdown–I mean lesson–to an ignorant right wing talk radio host named Kevin James, who was overjoyed at President Bush’s use of the Neville Chamberlain gambit the other day and wanted to take the opportunity to throw the same gambit around […]