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Don’t forget: The Skeptics’ Circle is fast approaching

Don’t forget, once again the time is fast approaching. Soon yet another installment of the Skeptics’ Circle will be upon us. In fact, it’s less than a week away and due to land at the Holford Watch on Thursday, November 8. Skeptical bloggers, there isn’t much time left for you to get your entries done […]

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Blogging Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Crank argumentation

Arguing with cranks can be an extremely frustrating experience, which is why I don’t do it very often anymore except on my terms on this blog. Yes, I did cut my skeptical teeth, so to speak, for several years doing just that in the totally unmoderated and wild free-for-all known as Usenet before I dipped […]

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Blogging Personal Skepticism/critical thinking

Now entering the Twilight Zone

Every so often, as a blogger, I get e-mail. Well, actually, I get a lot of e-mail, much of which I just don’t have time to answer (nothing personal when it happens), but every so often an e-mail makes me feel as though Rod Serling should be popping up at the end. I got this […]

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Blogging Humor

An LOL Cat for this blog?

Maybe this is the one. On the other hand, it may be more appropriate to the victims of Orac’s Respectful (and not-so-Respectful) Insolence™. Maybe I’m beginning to understand this LOL cat thing after all…

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

The mercury militia silences a voice of reason

Today is a very sad day in the autism blogosphere. The news I am going to discuss saddens me and should sadden anyone concerned with autism, particularly in combating the antivaccination hysteria and the outright quackery that flows from it promulgated by so many these days, from J. B. Handley to Jenny McCarthy, who couldn’t […]