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Better late than never? The Vatican demands that a Holocaust denier recant

I guess even the Vatican responds to public pressure, if it’s intense enough. Last week, I noted an extremely disturbing story, a story that outraged me, a story that I would have found even more disturbing were I still a practicing Catholic but that I found disturbing enough even though I no longer am one. […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust Holocaust denial Politics Religion

Holocaust-denying conservative Bishop “apologizes” for the “media storm” he caused–but not for denying the Holocaust

I’ve been a bit remiss about writing about this story. For that, I apologize. I realize a lot of you sent me links. For some reason, this week was an embarrassment of riches in terms of blogging material, and I didn’t have time to get to it all. With that out of the way, let […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust Holocaust denial Politics

Is the Holocaust “revisionism” movement no more?

This blog is primarily about medicine, the scientific basis of medicine, and general skepticism and critical thinking. As part of my interest in skepticism, a particular form of pseudoscience and pseudohistory that I first took an interest in about a decade ago, namely Holocaust “revisionism,” which is, of course, in reality Holocaust denial. Holocaust denial […]

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What does an anti-Semite look like…

…who needs a lot of practice still? I would say he might look like this. I still have to figure out what Zionist juice is, though.

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Anti-Semitism Bioethics History Holocaust Medicine Science World War II

Was Nazi science good science? (Part II)

My original post that asked the intentionally provocative question Was Nazi science good science? provoked a lot of comments, some of which made me think, which is good. This post was inspired by an article in which historian of the Nazi era Richard Evans was featured in a story about Nazi science and expressed his […]