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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Taking woo in the military to a whole new level: Deploying acupuncturists to Iraq

Several months ago, I wrote a post about the experimentation with acupuncture by an Air Force physician, Col. Robert Niemtzow. In the post, I started with an admittedly exaggerated vignette–a story, if you will–of a soldier whose leg was shredded by a mortar in battle. When the medic came to treat his wounds and get […]

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Politics Religion

Santa Claus will take you to hell…the video

The other day, I mentioned how the ever-warped and evil Westboro Baptist Church wanted in on the Washington State melee in which every religious and antireligion group out there is trying to get a display at the capitol after the state allowed a Christian Nativity scene. Included were the lyrics to a lovely jingle these […]

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Announcements

The last Skeptics’ Circle of 2008…

…is due out in a mere four days. Yes, on Thursday, December 18, Bing McGhandi over at Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes will be closing out 2008 by hosting the 102nd Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle. But there’s a problem. Bing has informed me that he only has three entries as of last night. With […]

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Entertainment/culture History Hitler Zombie Music Science fiction/fantasy

When Nazi zombies attack…

The Hitler Zombie definitely approves of this movie: Too bad I don’t speak German or Norwegian, because here’s the movie website, and here’s another trailer sans subtitles: I wonder if I can take some stills from this trailer to use the next time I feel “inspired” (at least I like to call it that) to […]

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Politics Religion

I can’t believe it! The Westboro Baptist Church actually made me laugh!

I detest Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. Few religious loonies bring the hate home in a more concentrated fashion than Phelps and his not-so-merry band of homophobic nutcases. Whether it be threatening to picket the funerals of Amish girls killed in a school shooting, showing up on TV to spew hate against homosexuals […]