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Announcements Antivaccine nonsense Autism Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

A photon has moved

Way back when I first started my blog, one of my favorite blogs was A Photon in the Darkness, in which Prometheus regularly demolished quackery, particularly autism-related quackery. Sadly, Prometheus’ blogging has become more and more sporadic over the last year or so, with gaps sometimes longer than a month between posts. I was worried […]

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Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Science Surgery

How “evidence-based” is evidence-based medicine?

Sadly (with regards to vacation) and not-so-sadly (with regards to the events of last week), it’s time to dive headlong back into the “real world” at work, starting with clinic today. It also means it’s time to get back to my favorite hobby (blogging) in a much more regular way, although I will say that […]

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Medicine

Cockroach dance?

I don’t know why, but I found this endlessly fascinating. Just click on one, and watch what happens. Do it again, and it gets even more complicated. Well, it’s good for a few minutes’ diversion, anyway.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Send a message to Andrew Wakefield

Kevin Leitch informs me that DAN/ARI are asking people to leave a message for Andrew Wakefield. Yes, that Andrew Wakefield, the man who almost single-handedly started a scare over the MMR vaccine, the man who was paid by lawyers and was either so clueless, careless, and/or dishonest (take your pick) that the lab where he […]

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Announcements Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The 69th Meeting of the Skeptics Circle is less than a week away!

Hot on the heels of the first Orac-free Skeptics’ Circle in two years, amazingly, another Skeptics’ Circle is coming around the pike far faster than I would have expected. This time around, it will be hosted by a most able blogger, Brent Rasmussen over at the very prominent skeptical blog, Unscrewing the Unscrutable. Brent’s hosted […]