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Pediatric Grand Rounds

The latest Pediatric Grand Rounds has been posted at Musings of a Distractible Mind, delivered in Tom and Jerry style. Gee, obviously, Dr. Rob isn’t aware that Tom and Jerry are a nefarious Jewish plot to corrupt Muslim youth. After all, an Iranian “expert” tells us this is so.

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Approaching fast: The Skeptics’ Circle

Time flies, and it flies really fast. Once again, that blog carnival of lucid critical thinking, the Skeptics’ Circle, is almost upon us. It’s scheduled to appear on Thursday, March 29 at the blog of fellow ScienceBlogger Martin at Aardvarchaelogy. Martin hosted the Circle a while back, before he joined the ScienceBlogs collective, and did […]

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Belated blogiversary!

Here’s wishing a belated blogiversary to Holocaust Controversies! On its first blogiversary, Nick has posted a cautiously optimistic analysis on the reason why Holocaust denial is losing its potency and increasingly being abandoned, even by the far right, as the completely ludicrous lie that it is. I have no illusions that Holocaust denial is going […]

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Denialism blogging

I’ve been remiss about this (mainly because I’ve been aware of it for a few days now), but it turns out that Mark and Chris Hoofnagle have started a rather promising-looking blog, Denialism.com. It’s a blog dedicated to discussing six main areas: HIV/AIDS Denialism Global Warming denialism Creationism/Intelligent Design Denialism Holocaust Denial Anti-Vaccination denialists Animal […]

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The Egnor challenge, day 2

Yesterday, at the end of a post about the fallacious statements about evolution that Dr. Mike Egnor, a Professor of Neurosurgery, has been routinely serving up at the Discovery Institute, I made a challenge. I think I’ll repeat it daily for a while until we see if he’s up to answering it. It should be […]