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Complementary and alternative medicine History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Medicine Quackery World War II

Arthur Caplan finds the Hitler zombie in bioethics

Vacation time! While Orac is gone recharging his circuits and contemplating the linguistic tricks of limericks and jokes or the glory of black holes, he’s rerunning some old stuff from his original Blogspot blog. This particular post first appeared on July 25, 2005 . Although the Undead Führer himself has made only one appearance, but […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Medicine Quackery World War II

The Hitler Zombie smells thimerosal

Vacation time! While Orac is gone recharging his circuits and contemplating the linguistic tricks of limericks and jokes or the glory of black holes, he’s rerunning some old stuff from his original Blogspot blog. This particular post first appeared on July 6, 2005 and is the very first time ever that the Hitler Zombie appeared […]

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Time again for a Change of Shift

The latest edition of Change of Shift, the blog carnival for nursing, has been posted over at Nurse Ratched’s Place. Enjoy!

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Medicine Politics

Taking pay for performance to a ridiculous extreme

This story‘s been floating around the blogosphere for a few days now, and I’ve been wanting to weigh in. Basically, Medicare is saying that it will no longer pay for conditions and treatments that result from hospital errors. Sounds reasonable on the surface, right? After all, if a surgeon leaves a sponge in a patient, […]

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Justice may yet prevail in the case of Abubakar Nadama

Good news! Dr. Roy Kerry, the quack whose careless use of intravenous chelation therapy for autism resulted in the death of a five year old autistic boy named Abubakar Tariq Nadama, will be charged with involuntary manslaughter: PITTSBURGH – A doctor was charged with involuntary manslaughter Wednesday for administering a chemical treatment that state police […]