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Entertainment/culture Movies Music Popular culture

Moral of the story: Don’t steal chickens (I guess)

While I’m working today, enjoy some bizarre cartoon awesomeness from Max Fleischer, courtesy of Boing-Boing: Truly amazing. And 80 years old, too, with a wicked jazz soundtrack. The Fleischer brothers rule.

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The skeptical hippo demands your attention…

…for the 128th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle, being held over at Ionian Enchantment. It’s another great one! And, as usual, it’s never too early to think about submitting your work to the next edition of the Skeptics’ Circle, to be held on January 28 at SkeptVet. Hmmm. I wonder if he’ll take on some […]

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Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic (Beam) Blues Again Mama!

Although there’s been plenty of woo this week (Harriet Denz-Penhey, anyone?), it hasn’t been the truly entertaining woo that I so love, you know, the kind of woo of Your Friday Dose of Woo, my long-standing (albeit now intermittent) excursion into the depths of alt-med silliness so over-the-top that it requires–nay, demands!–some serious not-so-Respectful Insolence, […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Beat the medical odds?

You don’t tug on Superman’s cape You don’t spit into the wind You don’t pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger And you don’t mess around with Jim – Jim Croce I love it when a commenter gives me blogging material. Let’s face it. Blogging is a tough hobby. As much as I do […]

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Cancer Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

James Randi speaks about chemotherapy

People fear chemotherapy. Some of this fear is not unreasonable, but a lot of it is a vestige of older days, when chemotherapy was much more unpleasant and even at times horrific. However, contrary to the old alt-med trope of chemotherapy as “pure poison” that makes you sicker than cancer, advances in chemotherapy and supportive […]