Orac is feeling a little under the weather. I appear to have caught some respiratory crud thatās going around, which, fortunately, isnāt so bad that I canāt go to work, particularly given that today is a lab/office day, but unfortunately made me feel too tired last night to create one of my usual peerless examples […]
Category: Antivaccine nonsense
One of the things you can say to someone who is antivaccine that will really tick them off is to ācall it like you see itā and call them antivaccine. Sure, there are a few antivaccine activists who are unashamed of being antivaccine, but most antivaccinationists, sensing that society in general quite correctly takes a […]
Itās been a bad week for celebrity quacks; that is, after starting out looking as though it would be a good week. For example, as I discussed a couple of days ago, contender for the title of worldās most brain dead antivaccine conspiracy theorist, washed up comedian Rob Schneider, having somehow managed to land a […]
Iām a State Farm customer. I have been for a very long time. To be honest, Iām not sure if itās inertia or the discounts that State Farm gives me because Iāve been with the company for so long. On the other had, Iāve had no complaints. State Farmās service has been fine, and on […]
Quackery has been steadily infiltrating academic medicine for at least two decades now in the form of what was once called ācomplementary and alternative medicineā but is now more commonly referred to as āintegrative medicine.ā Of course, as Iāve written many times before, what āintegrative medicineā really means is the āintegrationā of quackery with science- […]
