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Holy crap, I’m slipping a subluxation and need a readjustment: The 117th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle

Yikes! How did I forget to plug the Skeptics’ Circle? This time around, it’s the Skeptics Circle #117: The Chiropractic Edition and it’s here to readjust your subluxated skepticism. Or something. Either way, it’s a hoot. I do fear one thing though. Mike Meadon referred to the Skeptics’ Circle as “venerable.” Back when a blogger […]

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Medicine Politics

Burning stupid and hypocrisy

No comment other than I’m not surprised at the hypocrisy: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy No comment here either. As they say in law, res ipsa loquitur. I’ve been intentionally vague regarding my position on the Obama health care reform initiative because, well, mainly I haven’t entirely made […]

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Medicine Science

Effect Measure on “Science-based Medicine 101”: FAIL

Effect Measure is a site I highly recommend with experienced epidemiologists in charge. In other words, it’s run by adults. But scientists often disagree about things. This is apparently a secret to non-scientists and many reporters who assume that when two scientists disagree, one is lying or wrong. But it’s true nonetheless. Whatever the subdiscipline, […]

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Medicine Politics Surgery

Surgeons get $30,000 to $50,000 for an amputation? On what planet?

I’ve been ragging a lot on some of the right wing critics of President Obama’s health care reform initiative. Without a doubt, with their talk of “death panels” and their likening the health care reform bill to the beginning of another Nazi-like euthanasia program, they deserve it. But I just saw something on YouTube that […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Don’t listen to these “medical voices,” or: How did I miss this loony antivaccine site before?

Let’s face it, I’ve been at this “anti-antii-vax” thing for quite a while now. This December, this blog will have been in existence for five years. Even before that cold, gray Saturday afternoon nearly five years ago when, on a whim, I started up a blog on Blogspot that became the first incarnation of Respectful […]