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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine

Essential reading: A comprehensive takedown of Dr. Sears’ The Vaccine Book

You may remember a couple of months ago, I took Dr. Bob Sears to task. Dr. Bob, as you may recall, wrote a book that has become the bane of pediatricians everywhere, namely The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child. In this book, Dr. Bob, while oh-so-piously proclaiming that he is “not […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

The Huffington Post’s war on medical science is noticed

One of the advantages of having been a blogger for nearly five years is that you gain a sense of perspective after having written about various issues over and over for a long time. True, the disadvantage is that it sometimes becomes difficult to think of something new to say about longstanding issues. Even so, […]

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Announcements Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The 116th Meeting of the Skeptics Circle: One emergency room you really, really don’t want to

It’s that time yet again, time for another meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle. This time around, Beyond the Short Coat hosts a nightmare. No, really, a nightmare. Remember Mitchell and Web’s vision of what a Homeopathic A & E would look like? The 116th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle goes way, way beyond that. Here’s […]

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Medicine Science Surgery

The evolution of surgery: robots

I realize this is well over a month old, and maybe some of you have seen it before, but I haven’t. It’s a fascinating look by surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr at the history of surgery and how it has evolved over the centuries. One thing that talks like this remind me is just how […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

The British Chiropractic Association: Beware the Spinal Trap

A while back, I wrote about the grievous miscarriage of justice that occurred to Simon Singh in the form of a ruling against him in the libel suit brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association. Suffice it to say, that the BCA is using the U.K.’s exceedingly plaintiff-friendly libel laws to silence legitimate criticism […]